Download Caliber 0.8.13

Caliber is a cross-platform and open source e-book management program that can handle a wide range of e-books and e-readers. Among other things, it makes it possible to convert e-books between the various file formats in order to make them available for all platforms. Furthermore, it can also convert RSS-based news articles to e-book format and there is a viewer with which e-books can be read on the computer. A new version comes out every Friday and this time it’s 0.8.12. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Add a new action ‘Pick Random Book’ that can be added to the toolbar via Preferences->Toolbars.
• Driver for Droid X2
• PDF metadata: Support reading/writing of tags from the Keywords field in PDF files.
• MOBI Input: Speedup reading of HUFF/CDIC compressed files
• MOBI Output: Add a command line option –extract-to that uses the inspect MOBI tool to extract the created MOBI file to the specified directory
• Template language: Add a few new functions to manipulate lists (list_difference, list_intersection, list_sort)
• Make the Manage Tags/Publishers/etc. dialog show a column with counts for each item, to easily sort by number of items
• MOBI Output: Generate navpoints for items at every level in the TOC, not just the deepest level

Bug Fixes

• MOBI Output: Remove option to choose masthead font as the font selection control causes crashes on some windows systems
• MOBI Output: Fix bug that caused paragraphs that had only a non breaking space as text before the first child element to be removed.
• Display undefined dates properly in the Book details panel.
• Fix regression that broke deleting of books from first generation Kobos with un-upgraded firmware
• Get books: Fix Gutenberg store and improvements to chitanka.info and e-knigni.net
• News download: Support https proxies
• Check library did not know about original_* files
• Fix crash caused by having very large numbers of authors > 100 for a book

New news sources

• Carta Capital by Pablo Aldama
• El Tiempo, El Colombiano and Portafolio Colombia by Cavalencia

Improved news sources

• Nikkei News

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