Download Caliber 0.8.1

Caliber Team has released the first update to version 0.8.0 of its open source e-book management program Caliber. Caliber can handle almost all types of e-books and e-readers and makes it possible, among other things, to convert e-books between the various formats in order to make them available for 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. In Caliber 0.8.1, the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Add Amazon DE, Beam EBooks, Beam DE, Weightless Books, Wizards Tower Books to the list of ebook stores searched by Get Books
• TXT output: All new Textile output with much greater preservation of formatting from the input document
• Migrate metadata plugin for Douban Books to the 0.8 API
• Driver for Dell Streak on windows
• Add menu items to Get Books action to search by title and author of current book
• Add title_sort as available field to CSV/XML catalogs
• Add a context menu to the manage authors dialog
• Add a button to paste isbn into the identifiers field in the edit metadata dialog automatically

Bug Fixes

• Amazon metadata download plugin: Fix links being stripped from comments. Also fix ratings/isbn not being parsed from kindle edition pages.
• Fix one source of segfaults on shutdown in the linux binary builds.
• Allow the use of condensed/expanded fonts as interface fonts
• EPUB Input: Ignore missing cover file when converting, instead of erroring out.
• Fix custom identifier being erased by metadata download
• Fix regression that broke various things when using Japanese language caliber on windows
• RTF Input: Handle null color codes correctly
• ODT Input: Handle inline special styles defined on tags.
• Fix error when pressing next previous button with an empty search in the Plugins preferences
• Ignore ‘Unknown’ author when downloading metadata.
• Fix timezone bug when setting dates in the edit metadata dialog
• Fix ebook-convert not recognizing output paths starting with ..

New news sources

• Various Taiwanese news sources by Eddie Lau
• Replica Vedetelor, Ziua Veche by Silviu Cotoara
• Welt der Physik by schuster
• Korea Herald by Seongkyoun Yoo

Improved news sources

• Strategy+Business
• Reader’s Digest
• Ming Pao
• Telepolis
• Fronda
• Rzeczpospolita

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