Download Caliber 2.81

Version 2.81 of Caliber 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. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Amazon metadata download: Allow downloading amazon metadata from multiple sources. You can now configure the Amazon plugin via Preferences->Metadata download to use either the amazon servers, or various search engine caches to get the metadata. Should help with the recent CAPTCHA problems when downloading metadata from amazon.
• Kobo driver: Add support for new firmware.
• Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Always add the original word as one of the spelling corrections, so that small edits to the word can be made easily. Close tickets: 1667914
• Edit Book: Saved searched Dialog: Allow re-arranging the saved searches using drag and drop. Close tickets: 1669514
• Implement auto update of builtin metadata download plugins, just as for recipes and Get Books plugins. Needed as the websites they get data from often change.
• Edit Book: When inserting full screen images, use the actual image dimensions in the generated SVG code, when available.
• Linux installer: Check that the umask is suitable before running the installer. Should fix breakage on systems where users have changed the user umask but neglected to also alter it for sudo.
• Bulk metadata edit: Remove the control to delete specific formats as it is redundant. This functionality is already present by right clicking the Remove books button.

Bug Fixes

• TXT Input: When detecting the encoding of txt files only use the first four kilobytes of text. Fixes excessively slow conversion of very large text files. Close tickets: 1668246
• Get Books: Fix price not being displayed for books from Amazon dues to website changes.
• GetBooks: Update Google Books plugin for website changes
• E-book viewer: Fix slow startup when recently opened files are on a slow/malfunctioning networked filesystem. Close tickets: 1669497
• Google metadata download: Fix metadata not being found when the title of the book includes a sub-title.
• Improve downloading of covers from the google books metadata source
• News download: Fix a bug that could cause a crash when downloading an SVG image. Close tickets: 1669530
• Edit book: Fix a regression that caused pasting copied text from programs that generate both HTML and plain text when copying to paste the HTML in preference to the plain text.

Improved news sources

• tyzden
• The Economist
• Kansas City Star
• NY Times
• The Spectator