Download Caliber 0.8.45

A new version of Caliber is released almost every Friday and today there is no deviating 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 0.8.45 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries
• calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books.
• Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001
• KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples.
• When a new plugin is added to caliber for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation)
• Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog

Bug Fixes

• E-book viewer: Fix last read position (and bookmarks in general) being inaccurate for some books.
• The technique for marking locations in books used by the viewer has changed. The new technique should be much more accurate than the last one, especially when the font size at which the book is being viewed is changed. Note that this change means that bookmarks created with this release of caliber will not be read by previous caliber versions. On a technical note, the viewer now uses the CFI specification from the EPUB 3 standard for bookmarks.
• Workarounds for a few regressions in the user interface in 0.8.44 caused by the update to Qt 4.8.0
• Books list: Preserve the horizontal scroll position when sorting by a column
• Fix saving to disk and then adding the book back not restoring tags-like custom columns
• Linux installer: Fix completion for ebook-convert not working.
• MOBI Output: Recognize type=text in addition to type=start guide elements
• Get Books: Updates to Nexto, Ebookpoint and Woblink stores
• Fix unable to clear username/password in Fetch news dialog
• PDF Output: Fix margin specifications not being applied
• Linux installer: Manually preserve the defaults.list mimetype association file to workaround buggy xdg-desktop-menu implementations in some distros.
• E-book viewer: Fix regression that caused the ebook viewer to stop functioning if it is launched from the main caliber program and then the main caliber program is closed.

New news sources

• NRC Handelsblad (free) by veezh

Improved news sources

• Our Daily Bread

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