Download Caliber 0.8.51

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 0.8.51 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• When switching libraries preserve the position and selected books if you switch back to a previously opened library.
• Conversion pipeline: Filter out the useless font-face rules inserted by Microsoft Word for every font on the system
• Driver for Motorola XT875 and Pandigital SuperNova
• Add a color swatch the the dialog for creating column coloring rules, to ease selection of colors
• EPUB Output: Consolidate internal CSS generated by caliber into external stylesheets for ease of editing the EPUB
• List EPUB and MOBI at the top of the dropdown list fo formats to convert to, as they are the most common choices

Bug Fixes

• E-book viewer: Improve performance when switching between normal and fullscreen views.
• Edit metadata dialog: When running download metadata do not insert duplicate tags into the list of tags
• KF8 Input: Do not error out if the file has a few invalidly encoded bytes.
• Fix download of news in AZW3 format not working
• Pocketbook driver: Update for new PB 611 firmware.
• ebook-convert: Error out if the user prvides extra command line args instead of silently ignoring them
• EPUB Output: Do not self close any container tags to prevent artifacts when EPUBs are viewed using buggy browser based viewers.
• Fix regression in 0.8.50 that broke the conversion of HTML files that contained non-ascii font-face declarations, typically produced by Microsoft Word

New news sources

• Mainichi English by Hiroshi Miura
• The Grid TO by Yusuf W
• National Geographic (Italy) by faber1971
• Rebelion by Marc Busque

Improved news sources

• Mainichi news
• derStandard
• Japan End Gadget

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