Download Caliber 0.8.68
Like almost every Friday, a new version of Caliber has been released. 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 to e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The changelog of release 0.8.68 looks like this:
New Features
- Drivers for the Nokia N9, Viewsonic 7e, Prestigio PER3274B and Coby Kyros 7035
- Add a tutorial on creating catalogs to the User Manual and a link to it in the create catalogs dialog
- Wireless device connections: Add an option to force caliber to listen on a particular IP address. Access it by customizing the plugin in Preferences->Plugins
- Android driver: Add an extra customization option to configure the directory to which ebooks are sent on the storage cards.
- Add an option under Preferences->Look & Feel->Book Details to hide the cover in the book details panel
- The Caliber Companion Android app that allows wireless connection of Android device to caliber is out of beta. see [External link]
Bug Fixes
- Fix sorting by author not working in the device view in caliber when connected to iTunes
- Fix using the ‘configure this device’ menu action not validating settings
- Device drivers: Ignore corrupted entries in metadata.calibre, instead of raising an error
- PDF Output: Do not error out when generating an outline which points to pages that have been removed.
- PDF Output: Fix incorrect page numbers being generated in the outline when converting some books
- PDF Output: Reduce memory consumption when writing out the PDF file, by using a stream
- EPUB metadata: When there are multiple tags use the one with the earliest date as the published date
Improved news sources
- Wall Street Journal (subscription version)
- Houston Chronicle
- Various Romanian news sources
- Business Week Magazine
- Arcamax
Caliber screenshot. Click on the image for a larger version.
Version number | 0.8.68 |
Release status | Final |
Operating systems | Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista |
Website | Caliber Team |
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File sizes |
47.71MB – 76.20MB |
License type | GPL |