Software Update: Caliber 5.8.1

Version 5.8.1 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 from well-known web stores. Version 5.0 includes 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 also been made in this release:

New features

• Happy holidays to all caliber users!
• E-book Viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+F)
• Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences). Close tickets: 1908929.
• Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to caliber. Close tickets: 1907410.
• Content server viewer: Don’t enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
• E-book Viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
• Template/formatter enhancements: Add a ‘for’ statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
• Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode. Close tickets: 1907919, 1907918.

Bug fixes

• Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS.
• E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode. Close tickets: 1908000.
• AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working. Close tickets: 1898394.
• E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format. Close tickets: 1907907.
• Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books.
• PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
• Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the automatic or Google servers because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.
• Version 5.8.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer. Close tickets: 1909217, 1909197.

New news sources

• SchwarzerPfeil by tastytea
• Substack by topynate

Improved news sources

• The Australian
• The Atlantic
• Zero hedge
• New York Times Book Review