Download Caliber 0.8.53

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 0.8.53 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books
• Support for updating metadata in FB2 files
• Set a different background color when choosing formats to not delete as opposed to choosing format to delete.
• E-book viewer: Add an option to prevent the up and down arrow keys from scrolling past page breaks
• Get Books: Remove ebookshoppe.com at the website’s request

Bug Fixes

• PDF Input: Support image rotation commands in PDF files. Fixes the long standing problem of some images being flipped when converting from PDF in caliber.
• Fix a regression in 0.8.51 that caused conversion to HTMLZ to not have any CSS
• Get Books: Fix website change at kobo.com causing prices not to be found
• Edit the time in the 24 hour clock when caliber’s interface language is set to German.
• MOBI Output: When generating joint KF8/MOBI6 .mobi files set the text length field in the MOBI 6 header correctly.
• ODT Input: More workarounds for LibreOffice 3.5’s habit of inserting pointless margin:100% directives everywhere.
• Fix regression that broke smarten punctuation when quotes were next to html tags.
• Fix published date from ozon.ru wrong in some timezones
• Catalogs: Handle the use of custom columns with non-ascii names correctly
• Conversion pipeline: Remove the attempt to detect and autocorrect if text will go off the left edge of the page, as it was a rather crude heuristic. Also do not remove fake margins if the book uses negative text indents on the margined elements.
• KF8 Output: Set offsets to tags in the skeleton the same way kindlegen does. Also linearize non linear ToCs to ensure section to section jumping works.
• Conversion pipeline: Use correct default value of ‘inherit’ for font-family and font-size when normalizing the shorthand font property.
• When running python scripts via caliber-debug ensure that user plugins are loaded

New news sources

• Attac.es by Marc Busque
• Drytooling.com by Damian Granowski
• Shortlist.com by Dave ASbury
• National Geographic (es) by vakya

Improved news sources

• Business Week Magazine
• Metro News NL

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