Software-update: Calibre 0.8.21

Het is vrijdag, dus is er weer een nieuwe versie van Calibre op te halen. Dit opensource en crossplatform e-book-beheerprogramma kan onder andere e-books te converteren tussen de diverse bestandsformaten om ze zo beschikbaar te maken voor de diverse soorten e-readers. Verder kan het ook nieuwsartikelen op basis van rss omzetten naar e-bookformaat en is er een viewer waarmee e-books op de computer kunnen worden gelezen. In versie 0.8.21 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:

New Features

• A Tips and Tricks blog to introduce less well known calibre features in a simple way
• News download: Add list of articles in the downloaded issue to the comments metadata of the generated ebook. Makes it possible to search for a particular article in the calibre library.
• Toolbar buttons: You can now also right click the buttons to bring the popup of extra actions, in addition to clicking the small arrow next to the button.
• Amazon metadata download plugin: Add option to download metadata from amazon.es
• Driver for Vizio and iRobot A9 Android tablets
• When switching to/starting with a library with a corrupted database, offer the user the option of rebuilding the database instead of erroring out.
• Template language: Add list_equals function
• Add a special output profile for the PocketBook 900 as it does not resize images correctly by itself

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression that cause PDF Output to generate very large files
• Fix Title Sort field not being displayed in Book details panel
• Prevent renaming of languages in the Tag browser
• Get books: Fix getting price from Foyles
• Content server: When a search matches no queries, do not show an error message
• ODT Input: Add workaround for ADE to fix centering of block level images when converting to EPUB
• Content server: When WSGI embedding fix handling of empty URL
• RTF Input: Fix spurious spaces inserted after some unicode characters
• Fix regression that broke clicking on the first letter of author names in the Tag Browser when grouped
• Fix reading metadata from filenames when the author regexp does not match anything
• Fix incorrect display of the month September in Finnish calibre
• Do not delete the file when the user tries to add a format to a book from a file already in the books directory
• Fix regression that broke customization of Kobo device plugin
• Allow user defined templates to be used in save to disk

New news sources

• Various Colombian news sources by BIGO-CAVA
• Gosc Niedzielny by Piotr Kontek
• Leipzer Volkszeitung by a.peter
• Folha de Sao Paulo (full edition) by fluzao
• Den of Geek by Jaded
• Republica by Manish Bhattarai
• Sign on San Diego by Jay Kindle

Improved news sources

• Read It Later
• American Spectator
• Sydney Morning Herald
• Chicago Tribune
• American Prospect
• DNA India
• Times of India
• Kurier
• xkcd
• Cnet

Calibre screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.

Versienummer	0.8.21
Releasestatus	Final
Besturingssystemen	Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista
Website	Calibre Team
Download	http://calibre-ebook.com/download
Bestandsgroottes	42,30MB - 64,60MB
Licentietype	GPL