A new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source e-book management program and is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. In version 3.40, the following improvements have been made:
New features
- TXT Input: Use markdown 3.0 with support for new extensions such as code highlighting and smarten punctuation.
- Book details panel: Allow editing the identifiers for the book by right clicking on the existing Ids. Close tickets: 1815005.
- Content server: Allow specifying custom URLs for the ‘Search the internet’ feature via Preferences->Sharing over the net->Search the internet. Close tickets: 1810923.
- Tag browser: Category editor: Add a checkbox to restrict the entries shown to only those present in the current Virtual library.
- Allow adding files to selected book records from the clipboard. To use copy a file from windows explorer, right click the Add books button and choose: Add files to selected books from clipboard. Close tickets: 1815419.
- Tag browser: When right clicking on a saved search add a menu option to search using the raw search expression. Close tickets: 1816274.
- Tag browser: Have pressing the Enter key find the next match. Close tickets: 1816276.
- Windows: Add a button to Preferences->Sharing over the net to set caliber to run when the computer starts.
Bug fixes
- Fix a regression in the previous release that broke Copy to library and delete after when copying a duplicated book. Close tickets: 1816224.
- Edit book: Fix pasting of image from clipboard using (Ctrl-V) not working
- Content server: Fix {id} not working in the custom list template. Close tickets: 1818308.
- EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not saving title and format information. Close tickets: 1818838.
- macOS: Respect the system setting for text insertion cursor blink time.
- FB2 Output: Fix comments from the input document not present in the output. Close tickets: 1815357.
- calibredb: Fix adding books with an OPF file to a remote server not picking up the cover specified in the OPF file.
- TXT Input: Fix option to remove indents at the start of lines breaking conversion of markdown documents. Close tickets: 1814989.
- EPUB/MOBI Catalog generation: Allow matching empty fields in exclusion rules. Close tickets: 1814458.
- EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix multiple books with the same title but different authors in a genre not being listed. Close tickets: 1415990.
- Update the Get Books and metadata Amazon.com plugins to handle changes to the markup on the Amazon results page.
- Version 3.40.1 fixes a bug in 3.40 that could prevent caliber starting when using a custom date column.
New news sources
- Quanta Magazine by lui1
- El Periodico Mediterraneo by benages
Improved news sources
- Scientific American
- Taipei Times
- Harpers Magazine
- General Knowledge Today
- Granma
- South China Morning Post
- New York Times (Web)
- China Daily
- 1843
- Pro Physik
- Caravan Magazine
- Spectrum of Knowledge
| Version number | 3.40.1 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, macOS, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
| Website | caliber |
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| File size |
66.55MB |
| License type | GPL |