Download Caliber 0.8.4

Version 0.8.4 of the open source e-book management program Caliber has been released. 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 0.8.4, the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• New and much simpler interface for specifying column coloring via Preferences->Look & Feel->Column Coloring
• Driver for Trekstor eBook Player 5M, Samsung Galaxy SII I9100, Motorola Defy and miBuk GAMMA 6.2
• Get Books: Add EpubBud, WH Smits and E-book Shoppe stores
• When deleting ‘all formats except …’, do not delete if it leaves a book with no formats
• Change default toolbar to make it a little more new user friendly. The icons have been re-arranged and now the text is always visiblke by default. You can change that in Preferences->Look & Feel and Preferences->Toolbar
• Windows installer: Remember and use previous settings for installing desktop icons, adding to path, etc. This makes the installer a little slower, complaints should go to Microsoft.
• Template language: Add str_in_list and on_device formatter functions. Make debugging templates a little easier
• Allow the user to specify formatting for number type custom columns

Bug Fixes

• Fix typo in NOOK TSR driver that prevented it from working on windows
• Fix quotes in identifiers causing Tag Browser to be blank.
• Speedup auto complete when there are lots of items (>2500) the downside being that non ASCII characters are not sorted correctly. The threshold can be controlled via Preferences->Tweaks
• RTF Output: Fix handling or curly brackets
• Fix searching in Get Books not working with non ASCII characters
• Fix excessive memory consumption when moving very large files during a metadata change
• Fix series index being overwritten even when series is turned off in bulk metadata download
• Fix regression in templates where id and other non standard fields no longer worked.
• EPUB Output: Fix crash caused by ids with non-ascii characters in them
• Try to preserve the timestamps of files in a ZIP container
• After adding books always select the most recently added book.

New news sources

• Metro UK by Dave Asbury
• Alt om Herning and Version2.dk by Rasmus Lauritsen
• Observatorul cultural by song2

Improved news sources

• bild.de
• CNN
• BBC News (fast)
• Dilema Veche

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