Er is weer een nieuwe versie van Calibre uitgekomen. Calibre is een opensource- en crossplatform-e-bookbeheerprogramma. Het kan onder andere alle relevante informatie en kaftafbeeldingen opzoeken en e-boeken converteren om ze geschikt te maken voor de diverse soorten e-readers. Verder kan het kranten, tijdschriften en nieuwsartikelen op basis van rss-feeds omzetten in e-bookformaat, en kunnen er boeken worden aangeschaft bij de bekende webwinkels. In versie 1.9 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Drivers for the new Nook Glowlight, Lenovo IdeaPad and Kindle Fire HDX (linux). Closes tickets: 1244857, 1246775
- Add an option to check for duplicates (books with the same title/author) when copying between libraries. Option is under Preferences->Adding books. Closes tickets: 1245089
- Content server: Display book title on details page. Also put the most important fields (authors/series/tags) at the top. Closes tickets: 1246523
- When developing recipes using the command line, allow specifying the number of feeds and articles when using the --test parameter. Closes tickets: 1246061
- PDF Output: Option to control title of generated Table of Contents. Closes tickets: 1245076
- PDF metadata: If one of the keywords in the PDF is a valid ISBN, use it as the ISBN for the book
Improved news sources
- Amazon metadata download: Fix spurious ratings being returned for unrated books. Closes tickets: 1245449
- Bulk metadata edit: Only clear series if the clear series checkbox is checked. Also add a clear checkbox for publishers, so that publishers can be removed. Closes tickets: 1245058
- Use <h2> for the inserted Table of Contents title for the MOBI and PDF formats as well as the EPUB and AZW3 formats. Closes tickets: 1245076
- Fix comments editor in review metadata becoming too small on small screens. Closes tickets: 1245275
- DOCX Input: Fix hyperlink showing as underlined even if the hyperlink style in word is set to not show underlines.
- E-book viewer: Remember the size of the 'Inspect' window used to examine the book's code. Closes tickets: 1245068
- Wireless driver: Fix bug that prevented different formats of the same book on the device from being recognized
- Bulk metadata download: When downloading only covers and some covers fail, do not show the failed books while reviewing downloaded metadata. Closes tickets: 1238271
- BibTeX catalogs: Strip unmatched braces to prevent generation of invalid .bib file. Closes tickets: 1228905
- Reuters (Japan)
- MIT Technology Review
- dotNet Magazine
- Science Based News