Download Caliber 0.8.26

As usual, a new version of Caliber was released this weekend. This open source and cross platform e-book management program can, among other things, convert e-books between the various file formats to make them available for the various types of e-readers. 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. In version 0.8.26, the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Tweak to control sorting of date type columns. You can choose to have them sorted only by displayed fields
• Driver for the Trekstor 3.0
• Performance improvements when evaluating templates, and in particular general program mode templates

Bug Fixes

• ODT Input: When converting to EPUB improve handling of large images placed inside small frames, to prevent them from obscuring text.
• EPUB Input: Automatically strip entries of type application/text from the spine. Apparently there are EPUB production tools out there that create them.
• Keep the startup splash screen visible until the GUI has fully completed initializing.
• ODT Input: Fix handling of span tags containing only whitespace.
• On windows when changing title or author via the main book list, handle the case of one of the books files being open in another program more gracefully.
• When adding a format to an existing book record, ensure that no changes are made to the database until after the file operations have succeeded.
• Fix bug that prevented configuring which fields to download metadata for when adding books by ISBN
• Fix Japanese characters not being crectly displayed on index pages in news downloads for the SONY T1
• Get Books: Fix booleans in search expressions not working in non-English caliber versions
• Fix a bug in the support for hours/minutes/seconds in datetime format strings
• Treat an author_sort value of ‘Unknown’ the same way as unknown authors are treated in template processing
• Detect SD card in Kobo Vox
• Amazon metadata download: Workaround for change in Amazon website causing some books to have incorrect ratings downloaded

New news sources

• Techtarget by Julio Map

Improved news sources

• Metro NL
• The Independent
• Frankfurter Rundschau
• L’Espresso
• Il Giornale
• Berlingske.dk
• Suedeutsche Zeitung

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