Download Caliber 0.8.3

Caliber Team has released the weekly update 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 0.8.3, the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Allow the coloring of columns in the book list.
  You can either create a custom column with a fixed set of values ​​and assign a color to each value, or you can use the caliber template language to color any column in arbitrarily powerful ways. For example, you can have the title appear in red if the book has a particular tag.
• Support for the Nook Simple Reader
• Get Books, new stores: Virtualo, lulu.net
• A store chooser dialog for Get Books (click the little preferences icon at the bottom of the Get Books screen).
• Add a merge_lists, and, or, not template functions to the caliber template language
• EPUB Output: Change any white-space:pre declarations in the CSS to pre-wrap to accommodate readers that cannot scroll horizontally.
• Windows installer: Remember and use previous installation folder when upgrading. Note that this will work for future upgrades, after this one.

Bug Fixes

• MOBI Output: Fix hidden tags with id attributes also hiding their trailing text
• Fix switching from one news source to another via a search not saving changes to the scheduling of the first source
• Dont allow user to use non email usernames when setting up Hotmail or Gmail accounts
• Amazon metadata download: Use separate identifiers for country specific downloads so that the links to Amazon in the Book details panel work when downloading metadata from country specific amazon websites.
• Nicer error message when user attempts to set title/author via Edit metadata dialog and one of the files is open in another program.
• Fix {id} not working in send to device templates
• Windows: If creating a bytestring temp dir fails, create a unicode one and hope the rest of caliber can handle it
• Get Books: Fix some results from Amazon missing.

New news sources

• Various German news sources by schuster
• George RR Martin’s Blog by Darko Miletic
• Focus (DE) and National Geographic by Unknown

Improved news sources

• Kathermini
• faz.net
• The Washington Post
• El Mundo
• marca
• The Nation

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