Download Caliber 1.42

Version 1.42 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books 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 following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Edit Book: new tool to easily add a cover to the book. It automatically generates the HTML wrapper and takes care of marking the covers files as covers in the OPF.
• Edit Book: Improve the performance of inline spell checking, especially noticeable when editing large HTML files (over 100KB in size).
• Edit Book: Run syntax highlighting in the background, reducing user interface latency when editing large files.
• Template language: Add a new function (group_re) to use grouping regular expressions with groups, where you can replace the matched groups with result of another template.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for HTML files with non UTF-8 encoding declarations.
• Edit Book: Spell check dialog: Add an option to make filtering the word list case sensitive.

Bug Fixes

• Get Books: Fix integration with ebook.de broken by website changes.
• MOBI Input: Preserve the dc:rights metadata during conversion. Close tickets: 1333468.
• Edit Book: Fix non-BMP unicode characters causing matching tag highlighting to be slightly off on linux.
• Edit Book: When editing HTML files that have charset encoding declarations, automatically change the declared encoding (if any) to UTF-8 on save, since the editor always saves files in the UTF-8 encoding.
• Edit Book: Fix various problems when editing EPUB files with non-ascii internal filenames on OS X. Closes tickets: 1317883.
• Edit Book: Remove unused CSS: Fix an error if an HTML file links to a missing stylesheet.

New news sources

• Economic and Political Weekly by Krittika Goyal

Improved news sources

• Dead spin