Software update: Caliber 6.26

Version 6.26 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

• MTP driver: Support the new Kindle Scribe firmware that causes it to act as an MTP device instead of USB disk. Add “Documents” to the list of default folders to send books to.
• E-book viewer: Add a new option under scrolling behavior to control horizontal mouse wheel events jumping to next section.
• Allow full customization of Book details styling via Preferences->Look & feel->Book details.

Bug fixes

• Get books: Update ebooks.com plugin for website changes. Closes tickets: 2023046
• Edit book: Fix searching for non-BMP unicode characters highlighting only half the character.
• E-book viewer: Fix displaying more than one page per screen causing page layout to be slightly wrong for some books. Closes tickets: 2034075
• E-book viewer: Fix clicking on links with empty destinations hanging the viewer. Closes tickets: 2034404
• E-book viewer: Fix modifying, then jumping to and then modifying the highlight again from the highlights panel causing the highlight to be deleted. Closes tickets: 2033981
• E-book viewer: Fix indication of current section in Table of Contents sometimes wrong after changing font size. Closes tickets: 2033205
• E-book viewer/Content server: Disallow browser native context menu when right clicking in sandboxed iframes. Closes tickets: 2033530
• MTP driver: Ignore top level folders whose names start with a leading dot Also ignore AppleDouble files, top level system and fonts folders and sdr folders on Kindle devices
• FB2 Input: use the

  tag for paragraphs that don’t contain other block content. Closes tickets: 2033074

• E-book viewer: Fix clicking on the back/forward buttons not working in some situations. Closes tickets: 2033118
• E-book viewer: Fix scrolling to Table of Contents items that are within a single internal file not activating the back button.Closes tickets: 2032974
• E-book viewer: Fix changing the sans-serif font without also changing the monospaced font not working. Closes tickets: 2032694

New news sources

• Nikkei Asia (Magazine) and Espresso by unkn0w7n

Improved news sources

• National Geographic
• Sports star
• Bangkok Post
• MIT Technology Review
• Bloomberg
• Economic Times India
• Firstpost