Download Caliber 0.8.6

Version 0.8.6 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. The most important change is that Caliber can now also be used without being installed first, in so-called portable mode. Of course, more has changed:

New Features

• Builtin support for downloading and installing/updating caliber plugins. Go to Preferences->Plugins and click ‘Get new plugins’.
  When updates for installed plugins are available, caliber will automatically (unobtrusively) notify you.
• Metadata download configuration: Allow defining a set of ‘default’ fields for metadata download and quichly switching to/from them
• Allow clicking on the news category in the Tag Browser to display all downloaded periodicals
• Driver for the Libre Air
• Email sending: Allow user to stop email jobs (note that stopping may not actually prevent the email from being sent, depending on when the stop happens). Also automatically abort email sending if it takes longer than 15mins.

Bug Fixes

• MOBI Output: Allow setting of background color on tables also set the border attribute on the table if the table has any border related css defined.
• Nook TSR: Put news sent to the device in My Files/Newspapers instaed of My Files/Books.
• MOBI Output: Fix a bug where linking to the very first element in an HTML file could sometimes result in the link pointing to the last element in the previous file.
• CSV catalog: Convert HTML comments to plain text
• HTML Input: Ignore links to text files.
• EPUB Output: Change orphaned tags to as they cause ADE to crash.
• Fix ‘Stop selected jobs’ button trying to stop the same job multiple times
• Database: Explicitly test for case sensitivity on OS X instead of assuming a case insensitive filesystem.
• Get Books: More fixes to the Amazon store plugin
• FB2 Input: Do not specify font families/background colors

New news sources

• Christian Post, Down To Earth and Words Without Borders by sexymax15
• Noticias R7 by Diniz Bortolotto
• UK Daily Mirror by Dave Asbury
• New Musical Express Magazine by scissors

Improved news sources

• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Macleans Magazine
• UK subway

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