Download Caliber 0.9.19

Also this Friday a new version of Caliber is ready for you. 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. 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. Below are the changes and improvements made this week.

New Features

• New tool: “Polish books” that allows you to perform various automated cleanup actions on EPUB and AZW3 files without doing a full conversion.
  Polishing books is all about putting the shine of perfection on your ebook files. You can use it to subset embedded fonts, update the metadata in the book files from the metadata in the caliber library, manipulate the book jacket, etc. More features will be added in the future. To use this tool, go to Preferences->Toolbar and add the Polish books tool to the main toolbar. Then simply select the books you want to be polished and click the Polish books button. Polishing, unlike conversion, does not change the internal structure/markup of your book, it performs only the minimal set of actions needed to achieve its goals. Note that polish books is a completely new codebase, so there may well be bugs, polishing a book backs up the original as ORIGINAL_EPUB or ORIGINAL_AZW3, unless you have turned off this feature in Preferences->Tweaks, in which case you should backup your files manually. You can also use this tool from the command line with ebook-polish.exe.
• Driver for the Trekstor Pyrus Mini.
• E-book viewer: Add an option to change the minimum font size.
• PDF Output: Add support for converting documents with math typesetting, as described here:
• Column coloring/icons: Add more conditions when using date based columns with reference to ‘today’.

Bug Fixes

• Transforming to titlecase – handle typographic hyphens in all caps phrases
• Dont ignore file open events that occur before the GUI is initialized on OS X
• News download: Handle feeds that have entries with empty ids
• Fix a regression that broke using the template editor
• Do not block startup while scanning the computer for available network interfaces. Speeds up startup time on some windows computers with lots of spurious network interfaces.

New news sources

• Navegalo by Douglas Delgado
• El Guardian and More Intelligent Life by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• New Yorker
• Kommersant
• Le Monde (Subscription version)
• NZ Herald