Download Caliber 1.9

A new version 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 ebooks 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. In version 1.9, the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Drivers for the new Nook Glowlight, Lenovo IdeaPad and Kindle Fire HDX (linux). Close tickets: 1244857, 1246775
• Add an option to check for duplicates (books with the same title/author) when copying between libraries. Option is under Preferences->Adding books. Close tickets: 1245089
• Content server: Display book title on details page. Also put the most important fields (authors/series/tags) at the top. Close tickets: 1246523
• When developing recipes using the command line, allow specifying the number of feeds and articles when using the –test parameter. Close tickets: 1246061
• PDF Output: Option to control title of generated Table of Contents. Close tickets: 1245076
• PDF metadata: If one of the keywords in the PDF is a valid ISBN, use it as the ISBN for the book

Bug Fixes

• Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious ratings being returned for unrated books. Close tickets: 1245449
• Bulk metadata edit: Only clear series if the clear series checkbox is checked. Also add a clear checkbox for publishers, so that publishers can be removed. Close tickets: 1245058
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  for the inserted Table of Contents title for the MOBI and PDF formats as well as the EPUB and AZW3 formats. Close tickets: 1245076

• Fix comments editor in review metadata becoming too small on small screens. Close tickets: 1245275
• DOCX Input: Fix hyperlink showing as underlined even if the hyperlink style in word is set to not show underlines.
• E-book viewer: Remember the size of the ‘Inspect’ window used to examine the book’s code. Close tickets: 1245068
• Wireless driver: Fix bug that prevented different formats of the same book on the device from being recognized
• Bulk metadata download: When downloading only covers and some covers fail, do not show the failed books while reviewing downloaded metadata. Close tickets: 1238271
• BibTeX catalogs: Strip unmatched braces to prevent generation of invalid .bib file. Close tickets: 1228905

Improved news sources

• Reuters (Japan)
• MIT Technology Review
• dotNet Magazine
• Science Based News