Download Caliber 2.6.0

The sixth update of Caliber version 2.0 has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. 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, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. A new version comes out almost every week, but last week developer Kovid Goyal’s family expansion threw soot in the food.

In version 2.0 has, among other things, switched to Qt5 for the user interface and there are improvements with Android devices under OS X. In version 2.6.0, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

New Features

• Catalogs: CSV Output: Allow changing the order of fields in the generated CSV catalog by using drag and drop to re-arrange the fields in the create catalog dialog. Close tickets: 1379048.
• Edit metadata dialog: When editing metadata individually for multiple books, popup a confirmation if the user clicks OK before finishing the editing of all the books. Close tickets: 1378072.
• Allow configuring a keyboard shortcut to toggle highlighting of search results via Preferences->Keyboard (under Miscellaneous). Close tickets: 1380528.
• Edit Book: Saved searches window: Remember the last used values ​​for where to search and search direction
• E-book viewer: Allow right clicking on the toolbar buttons to popup the optional menus, useful when using the viewer on a touch screen. Close tickets: 1380359.
• E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut to toggle the Table of Contents [Ctrl+T]
• Performance improvement when renaming/deleting large numbers of items via the Manage Tags/Series/Publishers/etc dialogs
• Kobo driver: Update to support soon to be released firmware update from Kobo

Bug Fixes

• Amazon metadata download: Update the amazon metadata download plugin to handle changes to the amazon.com website. Close tickets: 1379305.
• AZW3 Output: Ignore invalid attribute names in the input document rather than aborting the conversion on them.
• Book details panel: Fix custom columns built from other columns with tag like values ​​not clickable in the book details panel. Close tickets: 1381323.
• Edit Book: Fix changing the editor undo/redo keyboard shortcuts not preventing the old shortcuts from working.
• CSV Catalogs: Output all custom datetime columns in the local timezone to match the format for builtin columns
• E-book viewer: When looking up words in the dictionary for a book that has no language set, use the current caliber interface language
• Fix comments editor widget in the edit metadata dialog swallowing Tab key presses, preventing the use of the keyboard to move between widgets. You can use Ctrl+Tab to insert literal tabs
• OS X: Workaround for regression in Qt 5 that causes pressing the Esc key to close the entire window instead of the current completion popup
• Fix Advanced search dialog not being sized correctly if the user selects a larger than normal interface font. Close tickets: 1378045.
• E-book viewer: Fix page turning by clicking in the margins in full screen mode (when displaying more than one page per screen) not working because of a Qt 5 behavior change.

Improved news sources

• nrcnext
• Wall Street Journal
• Smithsonian Magazine
• Sueddeutsche Zeitung mobil