Download Caliber 0.8.65

Like almost every Friday, a new version of Caliber has been released today. 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 feeds into e-book format and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The changelog of release 0.8.65 looks like this:

New Features

• A new wireless device driver. This allows connecting wirelessly to a device running a ‘smart’ caliber client
  The wireless connection functions just as if the device was plugged into the computer by USB cable. Currently, Android devices are supported. see [External link]
• MOBI Output: Add an option to control the type of MOBI file produced, to the MOBI Output conversion options. You can now generate an old MOBI6, a new KF8 or a joint MOBI6/KF8 file. By default, MOBI6 files are generated. This replaces the previous use of a tweak.
• E-book viewer: Make paged mode the default. You can go back to the old flow mode by clicking the button with the yellow scroll in the top right corner of the viewer.
• Driver for COBY kYROS MID7042 and Samsung Galaxy Ace S5839i

Bug Fixes

• Update version of poppler bundled with caliber to fix reading covers from some PDF files
• Get Books: Fix clicking of results from Diesel books when there is only a single result not working
• Improve detection of system language on first run of caliber
• When finding the next series index and the last series index is a fractional number, use the next largest integer, instead of just adding 1
• Fix exception when saving a search/replace when no saved search/replace had been opened previously in the bulk search/replace dialog
• Fix restore database not restoring entries for the original_* formats
• Fix first run wizard not allowing empty email sending settings
• Do not error out when setting the cover for a book that has no folders in the library.
• Conversion pipeline: Ignore unparseable values ​​in the color attribute of font tags, instead of erroring out on them.
• Catalogs: Fix regression that broke creation of catalogs while a device is connected
• Fix –with-library=/whatever not working for calibredb list

Improved news sources

• slashdot
• Various Canadian newspapers
• Business Spectator

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