Download Caliber 0.8.61

Also this Friday a new version of Caliber is ready. 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. Furthermore, it can 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 0.8.61, among other things, the internal e-book reader has been improved and the Windows and Mac OS X installers have been provided with a digital signature. The full changelog looks like this:

New Features

• E-book viewer: Add a paged mode that splits up the text into pages, like in a paper book instead of presenting it as a single column. To activate click the button with the yellow scroll icon in the top right corner.
  In paged mode, the ebook viewer no longer cuts off the last line of text at the bottom of the screen, and it respects CSS page-break directives. You can also set page margins and control the number of pages displayed on screen by clicking the Preferences button in the viewer and going to ‘Text layout in paged mode’.
• Digitally sign the caliber OS X and windows builds
• Get Books: Add Mills and Boon UK
• Various minor improvements to the Bulk metadata edit dialog
• Fix various regression in the auto-complete functionality for authors/series/tags etc introduced in 0.8.60
• Drivers for various new Android devices
• MOBI: Add support for the new language EXTH header field in MOBI files generated by kindlegen 2.5

Bug Fixes

• KF8 Output: Fix caliber produced KF8 files not showing the ‘Use publisher font’ option on the Kindle Touch when they have embedded fonts
• Txt/fb2/rtf/pml/rb output: Fix non-visibile element’s tail text (which should be visible) is being ignored when it shouldn’t.
• Book details panel: When displaying a link to amazon, use a country specific name like amazon.fr instead of using amazon.com for all countries
• Conversion: When splitting on page breaks, ignore page-breaks with values ​​of auto and inherit.
• Metadata jacket: Specify foreground in addition to the background color for the title banner so that it remain readable if the user tries to monkey with the CSS in the viewer.
• PDF Output: Fix rendering of cover as first age of PDF (ignore margins so that the image covers the entire page)
• Linux binaries: Bundle libglib to avoid incompatibilities with glib on various distros.
• Fix find_identical_books() choking on books with too many authors

Improved news sources

• Toronto Star
• American Prospect
• faz.net

Caliber screenshot. Click on the image for a larger version.