Download Caliber 6.28.1

Version 6.28 of Caliber has been released. This open source e-book management tool is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can, among other things, look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for various types of e-readers. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles into e-book format based on RSS feeds. Books can also be purchased with Caliber from well-known online stores.

In version 6.0 the switch to Qt 6 has been made, among other things. This does mean that the program only works on computers equipped with a 64-bit processor and at least Windows 10 or macOS 11 is required. Furthermore, you can now search all books in the library instead of just the current book, and there are also versions for Arm and Apple Silicon processors. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this update:

New features

• Edit book: Show full path to book being edited in the status bar.
• Edit book: When adding dictionaries allow directly a LibreOffice adding the dictionary just by choosing the language.
• Edit book: When saving a copy add some convenience actions to edit the copy immediately either in the current editor window or a new window.
• E-book viewer: Highlights panel: Allow right clicking to export only selected highlights.

Bug fixes

• Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that caused Text search to sometimes not select matches correctly. Closes tickets: 2034900.
• Edit book: When copying files do it in order so that the files are pasted in the same order when pasting into another editor instance. Closes tickets: 2037198.
• Edit book: Fix smart tag insert not working correctly if the selected text starts with the closing angle bracket of a tag.
• Save to disk: Do not limit the total path length to 240 characters on non-Windows platforms. Closes tickets: 2038238.
• Fix incorrect cover for AZW3 version of caliber User Manual. Closes tickets: 2037898.
• Content server: Change formatting of book details to match new de-emphasized titles based formatting in the main caliber program. Closes tickets: 2029723.
• PDF metadata: Fix a regression that broke updating metadata in PDF files without an /Info dictionary.
• NOOK driver: For the Glowlight 2023 write the caliber metadata files into the NOOK sub-folder as the firmware does not allow writing files into the root folder.
• NOOK driver: Fix Glowlight 2023 not being detected on Linux and macOS.
• E-book viewer: Make CFI calculation more robust especially on pages with very little content. Closes tickets: 2037454.
• E-book viewer: Workaround bug in Chromium where getBoundingClientRect() fails sometimes leading to incorrect calculation of anchor positions.Closes tickets: 2037543
• Fix errors caused by .DS_Store files inserted into the .caltrash directory on macOS if the user happens to open .caltrash in Finder. Closes tickets: 2037237.
• Version 6.28.1 fixes a regression in 6.28.0 that could cause errors when merging some book records in caliber

New news sources

• Business Standard Print Edition by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

• National Geographic
• Bloomberg
• Endgadget
• Times of India
• Horizons