Download Caliber 4.11.2

Version 4.11 of Caliber has been released. This open source ebook manager 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. In version 4.0 we find a completely renewed Content Server, there is a new e-book viewer and Qt WebKit has been replaced by Qt WebEngine. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts.
• Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them.
• Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu.
• Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size.
• Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens. Close tickets: 1862441.
• Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (Ctrl+N).Closes tickets: 1862432.

Bug fixes

• Viewer: Fix a regression that broke detection of pop-up footnotes using EPUB 3 markup.
• Viewer: Fix current reading position not preserved when changing preferences and auto scroll is active. Close tickets: 1863438.
• Viewer: Fix stopping autoscroll at end of chapter not stopping next chapter jump. Close tickets: 1863487.
• Fix for viewer window going off screen even when not restoring window geometry
• Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting for break-(before|after). Close tickets: 1863020.
• Fix drag and drop of some image files onto edit metadata dialog not working. Close tickets: 1862440.
• Conversion pipeline: Fix styles applied via selectors to the element being ignored. Close tickets: 1862401.
• Bulk metadata edit: Fix clear series not resetting series index.
• Fix clicking on author name in book details panel to search in Goodreads not working if author has more than two parts in his name.
• Fixes a couple of regressions that broke the New bookmark button in the viewer and scrolling in the content server library view.
• Fixes calculation of default column widths in viewer not changing when font size is changed.

Improved news sources

• New York Times