Download Caliber 2.32.1

Version 2.32 of Caliber has been released. In the past there was a new release every week on Friday, nowadays it is less frequent and this time there was even a month in between. 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. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release, which has already had a successor due to a small error:

New Features

• E-book viewer: Automatically save the current reading position every ten seconds. Prevents loss of reading position on crash/forced shutdown.Closes tickets: 1473737
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add checks for missing OPF version and toc references and for text placed directly inside the tag. Close tickets: 1468649
• calibredb: Add a new search sub-command that can be used to generate a list of book ids from a search expression.
• Tag Editor: Place the keyboard focus on the last edited field. Close tickets: 1473140
• Edit metadata dialog: When clicking Next and Previous preserve the current tab of the edit comments widget. Close tickets: 1467129
• Linux: Various fixes to make caliber work when compiled against the latest versions of Qt and PyQt. Close tickets: 1471083
• Edit Book: Allow drag and drop of files onto dock icon on OS X.

Bug Fixes

• There was a regression in 2.32.0 that caused conversion to PDF to fail, the fix for this was released in 2.32.1
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused the maximum text width setting in full screen mode to be ignored when switching from normal to full screen. Close tickets: 1467164
• Fix error in template dialog when using {id} in send to device preferences. Close tickets: 1474513
• Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix EPUB books with opf files that use a non-default namespace for the OPF namespace being corrupted. Close tickets: 1471419
• OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 regression that causes any errors during startup to be hidden behind the splash screen. Close tickets: 1473017
• Conversion: Fix incorrect relative URLs being generated when an HTML or CSS file is placed higher in the folder hierarchy than the opf file. Close tickets: 1474287
• FB2 Output: Fix error when using the sectionize with toc option and the input documents Table of Contents contains multiple items pointing to the same HTML file. Close tickets: 1471125
• Conversion: Fix error when input document contains a font size exactly one point away from the base size. Close tickets: 1472291
• Device drivers: Handle devices with undecodeable filenames in their filesystem. Simply ignore those files. Close tickets: 1467433
• Fix Cmd+Left/Right keyboard shortcut not working when editing items in the book list on OS X. Closes tickets: 1469554
• Fix corrupted text in the jobs list on some non-English windows installs. Close tickets: 1469549
• Edit Book: Workaround for a Qt regression that caused ‘See what changed’ after a search and replace on OS X causing the application to become unresponsive. Close tickets: 1466732
• Edit Book: Fix smarten punctuation not working for books with non-ascii characters in internal file names on OS X.

New news sources

• Slate Star Codex by Ned Letcher
• Hurriyet by Adrian Tennessee

Improved news sources

• Harvard Business Review
• Psychology Today
• NRC Handelsblad
• Entrepreneur Magazine
• 20 minutes
• economy
• Accountancy Age
• Jakarta Post
• Foreign Affairs
• Spectator Magazine
• Daily Express
• The Onion AV Club
• UK subway