Download Caliber 0.8.29

A new version of Caliber is released every Friday and today is no exception. Caliber is an open source and cross platform e-book management tool. Among other things, it can copy e-books to and from readers and convert them to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS to e-book format and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. In version 0.8.29, support has been added for the BlackBerry PlayBook, Motorola Electrify and Samsung Galaxy GIO S5660, and it is easier to search for names with accents.

New Features

• When searching for author names with accented characters, allow the non accented version to match. For example, searching for Nino will now match Niño.
• Driver for Blackberry Playbook, Motorola Electrify and Samsung Galaxy GIO S5660
• Metadata search and replace, make the regular expressions unicode aware

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression in 0.8.28 that broke sending PDF files to iTunes
• Metadata download, don’t strip # from titles.
• Conversion pipeline: Do not error out on books that set font size to zero.
• News download: Respect the delay setting when downloading RSS feeds as well.
• EPUB Output: Ensure that xml:lang is set if lang is set as ADE looks for xml:lang, not lang
• Content server: Reduce memory consumption when sending very large files
• Preserve capitalization of Scottish author names when downloading metadata
• Fix update title sort in bulk metadata edit not using language information
• Fix sorting by published column in the download metadata dialog broken
• Allow use of languages ​​field when generating CSV/XML catalogs
• Get Books: Fix ebookpoint.pl
• When calculating title sort for a book based on its language, only use the specified language not a combination of the language and english

New news sources

• gs24.pl and Gazeta.pl Szczecin by Michal Szkutnik
• Vanity Fair by Barty
• Skylife by thomass
• Daily Writing Tips by NotTaken
• TechDirt by Krittika Goyal
• Cosmopolitan UK by Dave Asbury

Improved news sources

• Metro NL
• Ming Pao
• Rolling Stones Mag
• Buffalo News

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