Download Caliber 0.9.16

Also this Friday a new version of Caliber is ready for you. 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 feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. Below are the changes and improvements made this week.

New Features

• News download: Add support for logging in to sites that require javascript for their logins.
• News download: Do not convert all downloaded images to JPG format. This fixes the problem of PNG images with transparent backgrounds being rendered with black backgrounds
• CHM Input: Support hierarchical table of contents. Do not generate an inline table of contents when a metadata table of contents is present. Also correctly decode the text in the table of contents
• Get Books: Add the beam-ebooks.de store
• Make custom yes/no columns using icons put text values ​​under the icons.
• Driver for LG E400 and SayCoolA710
• Speed ​​up device connection when there are lots of books on the device by not generating cover thumbnails unless they are actually needed.
• Have the metadata download dialog remember its last used size.

Bug Fixes

• Fix deleting a custom column that was used in a column coloring rule makes the column coloring preferences panel unusable
• Store caches outside the config directory for non-portable caliber installs
• PDF Output: Dont crash if the user has a font on his system that is missing the OS/2 table
• Conversion: Do not error out because of an error in user supplied search replace rules.
• Conversion: Replace all non-ascii characters in CSS class names, as they cause problems with some broken EPUB renderers.
• Do not choke when reading metadata from MOBI files with incorrectly encoded metadata fields
• Conversion: Preserve ToC entries that point nowhere instead of causing them to point to a non-existent file
• E-book viewer: Allow entries in the Table of Contents that do not point anywhere, instead of just ignoring them.
• Content server: Fix the ‘Previous’ link in the mobile version of the content server webpage skipping an entry

New news sources

• Contemporary Argentine Writers by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• TSN
• St. Louis Post Dispatch
• UK subway
• Michelle Malkin
• Barrons