Download Caliber 3.41.3

A new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source e-book management program and is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. 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.

Normally a new version comes out every other week on Friday, but this time it was a bit longer. This is because Kovid Goyal is currently spending a lot of time on the migration to Python 3. In version 3.41, the following improvements have been made:

New features

• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware.
• Content server: Add an option to control which book list mode is used by default for new users (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Choose book list mode).
• Content server: Allow clicking on book cover in details page to read the book. Close tickets: 1819058.
• Amazon metadata plugin: Add an option to use the mobi-asin to find books. Close tickets: 1823520.
• E-book viewer: Allow specifying ToC rel=”external” hrefs via the –open-at command line parameter. Close tickets: 1656573.
• Tag Mapper: Allow Title-casing of tags. Close tickets: 1823097.
• Manage authors dialog: Add an entry to the right click menu to show books by the current author in the main book list. Close tickets: 1821992.
• Lots of internal changes to caliber’s codebase to prepare it for python 3 support.

Bug fixes

• Content server: Fix links to external resources in book details and the viewer not working.
• Content server: Fix using a bookmark to load the book list not working if server is password protected. Close tickets: 1819025.
• Content server: Book details page: Fix close button not going back to book list after using Next/previous buttons. Close tickets: 1819060.
• Kobo driver: Fix update device metadata setting not being saved. Also fix book language not being set correctly on newer firmware.
• PDF Output: Fix ‘stroke-dasharray’ lines in SVG images in the input document not being rendered correctly. Close tickets: 1821923.
• Fix searching for authors on amazon not working because of a change in the amazon URL structure. Close tickets: 1822532.
• Cover grid: Check for cover size change due to screen scale change on every paint event and invalidate cache if there is a change. Close tickets: 1723972.
• Edit book: Fix Option key + ; not working in the editor. Close tickets: 1823040.
• Edit book: Fix pasting images into a book with no Images folder not working correctly. Close tickets: 1817405.
• Confirm cancel on library restore dialog. Close tickets: 1823204.
• EPUB/MOBI Catalogs: Fix presets not being applied for some options. Close tickets: 1821968.
• Fix using –insert-metadata with ebook-convert not inserting the title and author metadata from the source document.
• Adding books: When adding with auto-merge and auto-convert enabled, also run conversions for books into which the added files are merged. Close tickets: 1822018.
• Versions 3.41.1, 3.41.2, 3.41.3 fix various regressions in the previous release that affect a few people. Close tickets: 1825472, 1825494, 1825542.

New news sources

• The New Criterion by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• Il Post
• Le Monde Edition Subscription Paper
• Le Temps
• NASA
• 1843
• derStandard
• LA Times