Download Caliber 7.1

Version 7.1 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 following changes and improvements have also been made in this first update:

New features

• Notes editor: When pasting HTML with images offer to download remote images in the pasted content.

Bug fixes

• Fix regression in 7.0 that broke restore of db from backups.
• Content server: Fix newly added books on homepage not restricted to the books the logged in user is allowed to access.
• When starting in system tray do not flash the main window briefly. Closes tickets: 2044118.
• Notes editor: Fix spurious error message when saving a note that contains pasted HTML that refers to an image.
• Fix a regression that caused the unknown/unset date to incorrectly be displayed/edited as a date in the year AD 101 in some timezones. Closes tickets: 2043998.
• Comments editor: Fix data file links not working.
• Linux installer: Check that the user has libxcb-cursor.so.0 installed. If not quit early with an error message asking them to install it.
• LRF Output: Fix a regression in 7.0 that broke conversion to LRF. Closes tickets: 2044408.

New news sources

• The World Ahead by unkn0wn

Improved news sources

• Substack