Download Caliber 4.14.0

Version 4.14.0 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 In version 4.0 we find a completely renewed Content Server, there is a new e-book viewer and Qt WebKit has been replaced by Qt WebEngine.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: Add an option to have taps turn by screen fulls instead of pages, under Scrolling behavior.
• Viewer: Allow double clicking or long tapping on images to view then in a new window. Close tickets: 1872759†
• Edit Book: Add a new fuzzy search mode in which typographical quotes and various space types are matched by the plain equivalents.
• Content server: Add a new setting to allow un-authenticated users from specific IP addresses to make changes to the caliber library.
• Quick view: Double click in a column to show that column in the main book list.

bug fixes

• Book details panel: Fix copy path to file not copying full path to file when right clicking on a format entry.
• Windows: Fix error when applying hyphenation in bulk with Polish books. Close tickets: 1873949†
• macOS: Fix selecting applications that use binary plist files such as Kindle.app with Open With not working. Close tickets: 1873972†
• DOCX Output: Fix images that use URL unsafe characters in their filenames being dropped during conversion. Close tickets: 1873571†
• DOCX Output: Fix internal links not working when converted files contain URL unsafe characters in their filenames.
• Viewer: Fix view image popup not remembering its geometry.
• Viewer: Allow leading and trailing whitespace in search expressions.
• HTMLZ Output: Fix SVG images that use xlink:rel=”external” href not working. Close tickets: 1869856†
• Windows: Fix drag and drop from SMB shares to the edit metadata dialog formats list not working. Close tickets: 1869471†
• Comments editor: Dont insert blank lines between list elements.
• Allow using Quick view from the Book grid view. Close tickets: 1869550†
• Fix tri-state booleans not working with color/icon rules and undefined values. Close tickets: 1873106†

New news sources

• Heise ct and iX by Ralf Hein
• Saechsische Zeitung by by epubli

Improved news sources

• London Review of Books
• Seattle Times
• MIT Technology Review
• Zeit Online
• Handelsblatt
• Spectator Magazine
• Spectrum of Knowledge