Download Caliber 2.59

Version 2.59 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. 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 program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Amazon metadata download: Download the series information when available from amazon.com
• Amazon metadata download: Recognize common patterns of embedding the series name after the title and remove it automatically
• Edit Book: Add support for EPUB 3 to the Table of Contents tool. Now when editing EPUB 3 files using the tool will automatically generate both the EPUB 3 navigation document and the NCX table of contents for backwards compatibility.
• EPUB Input: Implement reading of Table of Contents from EPUB 3 files that do not specify a fallback NCX ToC
• EPUB metadata: When setting a cover image for an EPUB file that has no metadata cover image defined, add the new cover image as a pure metadata cover instead of aborting.

Bug Fixes

• Fix crash on exit if any plugins have loaded code that raises exceptions during shutdown. Close tickets: 1592414
• Copy to library: Speed ​​up checking for duplicates when copying multiple books to a large library. Close tickets: 1593027
• Get Books: Update Smashwords plugin for website changes. Close tickets: 1590653
• Edit Book: Fix a bug in the new text search facility that could cause searches to fail when searching from the current cursor position instead of the top of the file. Close tickets: 1588778
• Bulk conversion dialog: Fix page margin settings being ignored when converting to DOCX
• Make the default shortcut for remove books Backspace on OS X since many mac keyboards have no delete key and the backspace key is labeled as delete
• Edit Book: Check Book: Don’t warn if a cover image is not referenced in the text
• E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause incorrect rendering of chapter titles in some rare circumstances.
• Windows console output: Handle consoles with non black and white color scheme correctly
• Fix a regression in 2.57 that caused auto-removal of borders from covers to become much less proficient at detecting borders
• Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke grayscaling of images

Improved news sources

• Technology Review (DE)