Download Caliber 0.8.63

Also this Friday a new version of Caliber is ready. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. 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. The changelog of release 0.8.63 looks like this:

New Features

• E-book viewer: Allow quick saving and loading of viewer settings as ‘themes’.
• Ebook viewer: Add a restore defaults button to the viewer preferences dialog
• E-book viewer: Add simple settings for text and background colors
• Add an entry to save to disk when right clicking a format in the book details panel
• ODT metadata: Read first image as the metadata cover from ODT files. Also allow ODT authors to set custom properties for extended metadata.
• E-book viewer and PDF Output: Resize images that are longer than the page to fit onto a single page

Bug Fixes

• KF8 Output: Fix bug where some caliber generated KF8 files would cause the Amazon KF8 viewer on the Touch to go to into an infinite loop when using the next page function
• News download: Add support for tags that link to SVG images.
• Update podofo to 0.9.1 in all binary builds, to fix corruption of some PDFs when updating metadata.
• Catalog generation: Handle authors whose last name is a number.
• KF8 Input: Handle html entities in the NCX toc entries correctly
• Fix a caliber crash that affected some windows installs
• MOBI Output: Normalize unicode strings before writing to file, to workaround lack of support for non-normal unicode in Amazon’s MOBI renderer.
• EPUB Input: Handle files that have duplicate entries in the spine
• Fix regression in Kobo driver that caused the on device column to not be updated after deleting books

New news sources

• Dziennik Polski by Gregorz Maj
• High Country Blogs by Armin Geller
• Philosophy Now by Rick Shang

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