Download Caliber 0.8.37

Every Friday a new version of Caliber is released and today there is no deviation from it. 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 0.8.37 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Allow caliber to be run simultaneously in two different user accounts on windows.
• Driver for Motorola Photon and Point of View PlayTab
• Add a checkbox to preferences->plugins to show only user installed plugins
• Add a restart caliber button to the warning dialog that pops up after changing some preference that requires a restart

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the remove format from book function to only delete the entry from the database and not delete the actual file from the disk
• Fix regression in 0.8.36 that caused the calibredb command to not properly refresh the format information in the GUI
• E-book viewer: Preserve the current position more accurately when changing font size/other preferences.
• Conversion pipeline: Fix items in the that refer to files with URL unsafe filenames being ignored.
• Fix caliber not running on linux systems that set LANG to an empty string
• On first run of caliber, ensure the columns are sized appropriately
• MOBI Output: Do not collapse whitespace when setting the comments metadata in newly created MOBI files
• HTML Input: Fix handling of files with ä characters in their filenames.
• Fix the sort on startup tweak ignoring more than three levels
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix a bug that broke adding of a file to the book that caliber did not previously know about in the books directory while simultaneously changing the author or title of the book.

New news sources

• Mumbai Mirror by Krittika Goyal
• Real Clear by TMcN
• Gazeta Wyborcza by ravcio
• The Daily News Egypt and al masry al youm by Omm Mishmishah
• Klip.me by Ken Sun

Improved news sources

• People’s Daily
• Plus Info
• grantland.com
• Eret es irodalom
• sueddeutsche.de

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