Download Caliber 0.7.48

Caliber is an e-book management program and can handle almost all types of e-books and e-readers. It makes it possible, among other things, to convert e-books between the various formats in order to make e-books available on all platforms. In addition, it can also convert news articles based on RSS to e-book format and in this way make news available on e-readers. Caliber is intensively developed and a new version is released every week. Version 0.7.48 was released on Friday and has the following changelog:

New Features

• Launch of a new website that catalogs DRM free ebooks. A growing catalog of DRM-free ebooks. Ebooks that you actually own after paying, instead of just renting.
• Changes to the internal database structure used by caliber.
  “These changes will allow caliber, in the future, to support book language, arbitrary book identifiers and keep track of when the metadata for a book was last modified. WARNING: Because of these changes, if you downgrade caliber versions after upgrading to 0.7. 48, you will lose any changes you make to the ISBN of book entries in your caliber database, so do not downgrade unless you really have to. database structure is being changed.”
• News download: Add an option to keep at most x issues of a particular periodical in the caliber library. Use the Advanced tab in the Fetch news dialog for your news source to set this option.
• You can now right click on the cover in the book details panel to copy/paste a new cover.
• Add an entry to the add books drop down menu to easily add formats to an existing book record
• Tag browser: Clicking on a nested category now searches for the category alone. Clicking twice searches for the category and all its descendants and so on.
• Add a button to the Manage authors dialog to copy author sort values ​​to author
• Decrease startup times on large libraries by using a faster algorithm to parse stored dates
• Add quick create links to easily create custom columns of commonly used types to the add custom column dialog
• Allow drag drop of images to change cover in book details window.
• Device susbsytem: Create a drive info file named driveinfo.caliber in the root of each device drive for USB connected devices. This file contains various useful data. API Change: The open method of the device plugins now accepts an extra parameter library_uuid which is the id of the caliber library connected tot eh device

Bug Fixes

• Conversion pipeline: Fix regression in 0.7.46 that caused loss of some CSS information when converting HTML produced by Microsoft Word. Also remove empty tags from microsoft namespaces when parsing HTML
• Try harder to ensure that the worker log temporary files are deleted in windows
• CHM Input: Handle CHM files that dont specify a topics file.
• Fix regression that caused memory leak in Tag Browser. This would show up as the memory usage of caliber increasing when switching libraries.
• Fix bug that caused preferences->behavior to not show the output format set by the welcome wizard, and instead default to showing EPUB
• Fix bug that caused wrong books to be deleted from library if you choose ‘delete from library and device’ while the library is sorted by the On device column
• MOBI Input: Ignore all ASCII control codes except CR, NL and Tab.

New news sources

• Thai Post Today and Daily Post by Chotechai P.
• RBC.ru by Chewie
• Helsingin Sanomat by oneillpt
• LWN Weekly by David Cavalca
• New York Times Sports and Technology Blogs by rylsfan
• Historia and Buctaras by Silviu Coatara
• Buffalo News by ChappyOnIce
• Dotpod by Federico Escalada

Improved news sources

• Credit Briefs
• Seattle Times
• MacWorld
• Austin Statesman
• EPL Talk
• gawker
• Dead spin

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