Download Caliber 7.0

Version 7.0 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 7.0 is the ability to add notes to, for example, authors and series, and is support for epub audiobooks added. Additional files can also be added to books, such as an alternative cover image, and Caliber now has its own trash can, which can be used instead of the one in the OS. The complete changelog for this release looks like this:

New features

• For details on the major changes in caliber between 7.0 and 6.0, see this page
• The ability to add notes to any author, tag, series, etc. in caliber with links and images
• E-book viewer: Add support for HTML image maps. Closes tickets: 2040487
• Content server home page: Show the three most recently added books in the default library
• Content server: Add button to return to book details page at top level of controls
• Content server: Book details: Open links in comments fields in the same window rather than a new window
• Add a “Show items in selected books” choice to Manage tags and Manage authors
• Show the previously used language, if any, second in the language selection drop down. Closes tickets: 2042804

Bug fixes

• Metadata download: Fix downloads from Google not working in Europe because of the GDPR. Closes tickets: 2043415
• Fix editing dates with days sometimes off by one day. Closes tickets: 2042815
• Edit book: Fix highlighting for special characters not visible when the cursor is on the line with the special character
• Fix embedding metadata showing infinite error dialogs on windows if a file is locked by another program. Closes tickets: 2043248
• PDF Output: Fix an error when trying to set header or footer with an input document that has invalid content after the main body. Closes tickets: 2040074
• E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix clicking on empty spaces causing read aloud to restart from beginning of chapter. Closes tickets: 2042791
• Book details: Fix Manage authors via context menu not working
• E-book viewer: Showing chrome should close an active footnote popup first and only show chrome if the user repeats the action. Closes tickets: 2041848
• Fix very slow metadata updates on some PDF files. Closes tickets: 2041745
• Catalogs: Do not erase any tags the user adds to a catalog book entry when the catalog is re-generated. Closes tickets: 1262875
• Linux installer: Fix downloading of signatures for older versions. Closes tickets: 2042748
• Fix editing non-active Virtual library changes sort of book list. Closes tickets: 2041357

New news sources

• Bookforum, Kirkus Reviews and Poetry Magazine by ping

Improved news sources

• Financial Times
• National Geographic
• Hamilton Spectator
• Times of India
• MIT Tech Review
• Bloomberg
• WashingtonPost
• Project Syndicate
• Cumhuriyet
• Foreign Affairs
• Harvard Business Review
• Wall Street Journal