Download Caliber 5.33.2

Version 5.33 of Caliber has been released. This open source ebook manager is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert ebooks 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. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• Allow changing the icon used for caliber libraries. Right click the library icon in caliber and choose “Change the icon for this library”.
• Comments editor: Use a single line for all three toolbars if they fit.
• Edit book: Allow merging HTML files by drag and drop of the files onto another HTML file.
• Kobo driver: Add support for listing purchased audiobooks.
• Edit metadata all-in-one mode: The cover and formats column now gives as much vertical space as possible to the cover image.
• Add books dialog: When a non-book file type is added the next time the dialog is used, preselect the “All files” filter. Close tickets: 1952562
• caliber-server –manage-users: Allow managing users while the server is running and also add actions to automate changing user account restrictions. Close tickets: 1952764
• EPUB 3 metadata: If the book contains a “subtitle” append it to the main title when reading metadata. Close tickets: 1950762

bug fixes

• E-book viewer: Fix an occasional hang on startup at “Loading section”. Close tickets: 1950673
• Get books: Update the Kobo plugin for website changes. Close tickets: 1952142
• Bulk edit metadata dialog: Fix changing the search mode resetting other fields. Close tickets: 1951673
• E-book viewer: Fix sorting of highlights incorrect in books that use HTML ids with a hyphen in them. Close tickets: 1951507
• PDF Output: Fix the option to break long words at the ends of lines causing boxes to be rendered at the end fo the line on macOS with some fonts. Close tickets: 1951467
• Google metadata plugin: When searching by ISBN if no results are found retry using an alternate query syntax.
• 5.33.2 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the toolbar in the popup comments editor dialog and rendering of the download metadata button in the edit metadata dialog on Windows, as well as reading files from MTP devices on Windows.

New news sources

• The Epoch Times by Kovid Goyal
• Mens Day Out by Vishwas Vasuki

Improved news sources

• Smithsonian Magazine