Download Caliber 5.30

Version 5.30 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 includes 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

• Add support for the new Kobo Sage and Libra 2 e-book reader devices
• E-book viewer: Read aloud: Allow right clicking to play/pause reading. Close tickets: 1946439†
• Sending books by e-mail: Preserve non-English characters in attached filenames.
• Browser tab: Allow searching for sub-categories by right clicking on them. Close tickets: 1946560†

bug fixes

• E-book viewer: Fix cover and full screen images not centered in paged mode when more than one page is displayed per screen.
• ToC Editor: Ignore in succession clicks on the OK and Cancel buttons to avoid accidentally closing the window when finishing creating a new entry.
• Comments editor: Fix the formatting buttons not showing the current state correctly and fix some keyboard shortcuts not working when more than one comments editor is present in a single window. Close tickets: 1905479†
• Tag browser: Fix renaming of User categories in Virtual libraries. Close tickets: 1946417†
• Make removing large numbers of custom column icons easier. Close tickets: 1947948†

Improved news sources

• Private Eye
• Foreign Policy
• Le Monde Diplomatique – cono sur