Versie 0.8.6 van het opensource e-book-managementprogramma Calibre is uitgebracht. Calibre kan overweg met bijna alle soorten e-books en e-readers en maakt het onder andere mogelijk om e-books te converteren tussen de diverse formaten om ze op deze manier beschikbaar te maken voor alle platforms. Daarnaast kan het ook nieuwsartikelen op basis van RSS omzetten naar e-bookformaat en op deze manier nieuws beschikbaar maken op e-readers. De belangrijkste verandering is dat Calibre nu ook kan worden gebruikt zonder eerst geïnstalleerd te worden, in zogenaamde portable mode. Er is uiteraard meer veranderd:
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Builtin support for downloading and installing/updating calibre plugins. Go to Preferences->Plugins and click 'Get new plugins'.
When updates for installed plugins are available, calibre will automatically (unobtrusively) notify you.- Metadata download configuration: Allow defining a set of 'default' fields for metadata download and quichly switching to/from them
- Allow clicking on the news category in the Tag Browser to display all downloaded periodicals
- Driver for the Libre Air
- Email sending: Allow user to stop email jobs (note that stopping may not actually prevent the email from being sent, depending on when the stop happens). Also automatically abort email sending if it takes longer than 15mins.
New news sources
- MOBI Output: Allow setting of background color on tables also set the border attribute on the table if the table has any border related css defined.
- Nook TSR: Put news sent to the device in My Files/Newspapers instaed of My Files/Books.
- MOBI Output: Fix a bug where linking to the very first element in an HTML file could sometimes result in the link pointing to the last element in the previous file.
- CSV catalog: Convert HTML comments to plain text
- HTML Input: Ignore links to text files.
- EPUB Output: Change orphaned tags to
as they cause ADE to crash.- Fix 'Stop selected jobs' button trying to stop the same job multiple times
- Database: Explicitly test for case sensitivity on OS X instead of assuming a case insensitive filesystem.
- Get Books: More fixes to the Amazon store plugin
- FB2 Input: Do not specify font families/background colors
Improved news sources
- Christian Post, Down To Earth and Words Without Borders by sexymax15
- Noticias R7 by Diniz Bortolotto
- UK Daily Mirror by Dave Asbury
- New Musical Express Magazine by scissors
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Macleans Magazone
- Metro UK
Calibre screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.
