Download Caliber 3.8

After an unusually long hiatus, another update for version 3.0 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. In version 3.0 little has changed in the appearance of the program. There is, however, a completely new content server and there is support for screens with a high resolution. The following improvements have also been made in this release:

New features

• Bulk metadata edit dialog: Add an action to set metadata from e-book files. Close tickets: 1717755.
• Server: Add an option to control the number of books displayed per page in the browser (Preferences->Sharing over the net->Advanced). Close tickets: 1715283.
• DOCX Output: Add an option to preserve the cover aspect ratio in the output document. Close tickets: 1715800.
• Book details panel: An option to control the layout of the panel in ‘Narrow’ mode (Preferences->Look & feel->Book details). Close tickets: 1714613.
• If the –start-in-tray option is specified, create a tray icon even if the configuration option to enable tray icons is off.

Bug fixes

• Possible fix for issue with pinning caliber to taskbar on windows. Note that as an unfortunate side-effect, you will have to unpin and re-pin caliber to the taskbar after updating.
• DOCX Output: Fix text immediately after a hidden tag not being included. Close tickets: 1717403.
• Fix a regression that broke fetching of metadata from Douban.
• Cover grid: Fix Shift+arrow keys to manipulate selection not working. Close tickets: 1717828.
• Editor snippets: Dont lose the last selected word when the user triggers a non-existent snippet. Close tickets: 1713244.
• Book details popup window: Show the cover size in the bottom right corner if the option to show cover size in the Book details panel is set. Close tickets: 1716520.
• Linux: Fix regression that broke using caliber on some older VNC servers
• Browser viewer: Do not fail if the book contains javascript that has errors. Close tickets: 1715781.
• Linux: Fix file open dialog on older KDE desktops not working correctly. Close tickets: 1715648.
• Update Ozon.ru metadata plugin for website changes. Close tickets: 1715347.
• LIT Input: Fix a buffer overflow caused by malformed LIT files. Close tickets: 1713716.
• Conversion: Expand -epub-writing-mode to -webkit-writing-mode and writing-mode properties for maximum compatibility. Close tickets: 1713509.
• Linux: Fix SONY PRS-650 not being detected

New news sources

• Dunya Halleri by Sukru Alatas

Improved news sources

• The Hindu
• Le Monde
• Wired Monthly
• cracked.com
• carta
• FAZ.NET
• news week
• Financial Times