Download Caliber 0.8.49

A new version of Caliber is released almost every Friday and today there is no deviating from it. Caliber is an open source and cross platform e-book management tool. Among other things, it can copy e-books to and from readers and convert them 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. In version 0.8.49 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Experimental support for generating Amazon’s new KF8 format MOBI files. Caliber can now generate Amazon’s new KF8 format MOBI files. To turn on this feature, go to Preferences->Tweaks and click Plugin Tweaks. In the box add: test_mobi_output_type=”both” caliber will now produce MOBI files that have both the old MOBI format and the new KF8 format in them. To learn more about KF8, read this. Note that caliber support for KF8 is still experimental and there will likely be bugs.
• Upgrade to using cssutils 0.9.9 for CSS parsing. Improved speed and robustness.
• Show cover size in a tooltip in the conversion dialog
• Driver for Nook Simple Touch with Glow Light

Bug Fixes

• Heuristics: When italicizing words do not operate on words not in between HTML tags.
• Fix (I hope) the bulk metadata download process crashing for some people on OS X when clicking the Yes button to apply the updates.
• Fix tooltip not being updated in the book details panel when pasting in a new cover
• Cover Browser: Wrap the title on space only, not in between words.
• Edit metadata dialog: If a permission denied error occurs when clicking the next or prev buttons, stay on the current book.
• Fix heuristics not removing unnecessary hyphens from the end of lines.

New news sources

• Berria by Alayn Gortazar
• Sol Haber by Onur Gungor
• Telam by Darko Miletic
• Richmond Times-Dispatch by jde

Improved news sources

• Metro News NL
• Der Tagesspiegel

Caliber screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.