Download Caliber 0.8.64

Like almost every Friday, a new version of Caliber can be picked up today. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can copy and convert e-books to and from readers to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS to e-book format and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The changelog of release 0.8.64 looks like this:

New Features

• E-book viewer: Allow viewing images in the book in a separate pop-up window by right clicking on the image. Useful if you want to keep some image, like a map to the side while reading the book.
• Catalogs: Allow generation of catalogs in AZW3 format. Also add more powerful configuration options to exclude books and set prefixes. see here for details.
• Generate a PDF version of the User Manual

Bug Fixes

• News download: Fix broken handling of nesting for HTML 5 tags when parsing with BeautifulSoup
• EPUB: Handle files in the EPUB that have semi-colons in their file names. This means in particular using URL escaping when creating the NCX as ADE cannot handle unescaped semi-colons in the NCX.
• Conversion pipeline: Ignore unparseable CSS instead of erroring out on it.
• When setting up a column coloring rule based on the languages ​​column, allow entry of localized language names instead of only ISO codes
• Catalogs: Generate cover for mobi/azw3 catalogs
• Update the last modified column record of a book, whenever a format is added to the book.
• E-book viewer: Fix line scrolling stops at breaks option not working in paged mode
• MOBI Output: Fix ToC at start option having no effect when converting some input documents that have an out-of-spine ToC.
• Catalog Generation: When generating EPUB/MOBI catalogs add more flexible rules for excluding books. Also add rules to customize the prefix characters used.
• Make setting published date using metadata search/replace more robust.
• Tag Browser: Flatten the display of sub-groups when sort by is not set to ‘name’.
• Fix isbn:false not matching if other identifiers are attached to the book.

New news sources

• eKundelek.pl by Artur Stachecki
• Sueddeutsche Mobil by Andreas Zeiser

Improved news sources

• The New Republic
• ZDNet
• UK subway
• FHM UK

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