Download Caliber 5.27

Version 5.27 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 ebooks 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. Version 5.0 has included a switch to Python 3, various improvements have been made to the e-book viewer and there is now also a dark mode for the e-book viewer and content server. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New features

• When adding markdown (.md) or textile (.textile) files that contain references to images, automatically add them as txtz with the images.

Bug fixes

• DOCX Output: Correctly convert soft hyphens in the input document to DOCX soft hyphens.
• DOCX Input: Fix a bookmark at the end of a paragraph causing the bookmark at the start of the paragraph to be skipped. Close tickets: 1942805
• Edit book: Spell check: Fix EPUB 3 nav document not being spell checked when not in the spine. Close tickets: 1942773
• PDF Output: Fix a rare failure when the input document has a ToC item pointing to the last page. Close tickets: 19942012
• Windows: Fix a regression in caliber 5 that caused drag and drop from WinZip to not work. Close tickets: 1942129
• TXT Output: Fix a regression in caliber 5 that caused the max line length option to not work. Close tickets: 1941992
• When auto converting added TXT files with image references to TXTZ use a full markdown parser to detect markdown images.

New news sources

• The Week by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources

• BBC News
• Foreign Affairs