Software update: Caliber 6.16

Version 6.16 of Caliber has been released. This open source e-book management tool is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can, among other things, look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for various types of e-readers. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles into e-book format based on RSS feeds. Books can also be purchased with Caliber from well-known online stores.

In version 6.0 the switch to Qt 6 has been made, among other things. However, this does mean that the program only works on computers equipped with a 64bit processor and requires at least Windows 10 or macOS 11. Furthermore, you can now search all books in the library instead of just the current book, and there are also versions for Arm and Apple Silicon processors. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this update:

New features

• Allow storing additional data files with a book.
  Right click the Add books button to add arbitrary files as “data files” to a book record. These are managed by caliber along with the book files, but cannot be used for conversion/viewing. Select a book and press the “O” key to view the data files in your file explorer.
• Allow undoing the deletion of books from the caliber library
  Now deleted books are stored in a caliber “Trash bin” from which they can be restored with a single click. To view the trash bin, right click the “Remove books” button.
• Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Elipsa 2E. Closes tickets: 2016070
• Book details: if an item has an associated link then offer that link in the item’s context menu.

Bug fixes

• Content server viewer: Fix end of chapter content being occasionally skipped when scrolling by screen full with multiple pages. Closes tickets: 2015617.
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused notes from a different highlights to be shown in some situations. Closes tickets: 2017130.
• E-book viewer: Show an error if the user tries to search for only punctuation or spaces in the search modes that ignore these. Closes tickets: 2015795.
• Fix custom columns not showing in Book details links from other libraries.

New news sources

• Bar and Bench by unkn0wn
• The Washington Post Print Edition by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

• Frontline
• Outlook Magazine