Software Update: Caliber 5.28

Version 5.28 of Caliber has been released. This open source ebook manager is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert ebooks 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. Version 5.0 has included a switch to Python 3, various improvements have been made to the e-book viewer and there is now also a dark mode for the e-book viewer and content server. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• Edit metadata dialog: Customize cover generation: Allow saving and loading cover generation settings as “themes”.
• E-book viewer: Allow pressing the 0-9 keys to apply a quick highlight style. Close tickets: 1944614.
• Book details panel: While clicking tags/authors/etc. holding down the Ctrl+Shift modifier keys now add the tag to the current search with “AND” instead of “OR” when using only Ctrl. Close tickets: 1943521.
• Add an option to the preferences drop down menu to restart caliber without third party plugins. Close tickets: 1944057.

Bug fixes

• Edit book: When renaming classes in style sheets only recognize class names preceded by a period. Close tickets: 1944562.
• E-book viewer: Fix lookup in Google partially hidden due to change in Google results page markup.
• Conversion dialog: Search replace expression builder: Fix incorrect search result highlighting when non-BMP unicode characters are present in the text.
• E-book viewer: Fix popup footnote blank when the footnote link points to a tag. Close tickets: 1943270.
• E-book viewer: Fix jumping to highlights in text that occurs after a line break and newline character not working in paged mode. Close tickets: 1944433.
• Kindle Output: Strip EXIF ​​metadata from JPEG images as the Kindle renderer has issues with it. Close tickets: 1943495.

Improved news sources

• енты и акты
• India Today