Software-update: Calibre 0.8.3

Calibre Team heeft de wekelijkse update van zijn opensource e-book-managementprogramma Calibre 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. In Calibre 0.8.3 zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:

New Features

• Allow the coloring of columns in the book list.
  You can either create a custom column with a fixed set of values and assign a color to each value, or you can use the calibre template language to color any column in arbitrarily powerful ways. For example, you can have the title appear in red if the book has a particular tag.
• Support for the Nook Simple Reader
• Get Books, new stores: Virtualo, lulu.net
• A store chooser dialog for Get Books (click the little preferences icon at the bottom of the Get Books screen).
• Add a merge_lists, and, or, not template functions to the calibre template language
• EPUB Output: Change any white-space:pre declarations in the CSS to pre-wrap to accomodate readers that cannot scroll horizontally.
• Windows installer: Remember and use previous installation folder when upgrading. Note that this will work for future upgrades, after this one.

Bug Fixes

• MOBI Output: Fix hidden tags with id attributes also hiding their trailing text
• Fix switching from one news source to another via a search not saving changes to the scheduling of the first source
• Dont allow user to use non email usernames when setting up Hotmail or Gmail accounts
• Amazon metadata download: Use separate identifiers for country specific downloads so that the links to Amazon in the Book details panel work when downloading metadata from country specific amazon websites.
• Nicer error message when user attempts to set title/author via Edit metadata dialog and one of the files is open in another program.
• Fix {id} not working in send to device templates
• Windows: If creating a bytestring temp dir fails, create a unicode one and hope the rest of calibre can handle it
• Get Books: Fix some results from Amazon missing.

New news sources

• Various German news sources by schuster
• George R. R. Martin's Blog by Darko Miletic
• Focus (DE) and National Geographic by Unknown

Improved news sources

• Kathermini
• Faz.net
• The Washington Post
• El Mundo
• Marca
• The Nation

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