Calibre

calibre 0.8.30:

New Features

  • Get Books: Add amazon.es and amazon.it
  • Bulk convert dialog: Disable the Use saved conversion settings checkbox when none of the books being converted has saved conversion settings
  • ebook-viewer: And a command line switch to specify the position at which the file should be opened.
  • Distribute calibre source code compressed with xz instead of gzip for a 40% reduction in size

Bug Fixes

  • Get Books: Fix ebooks.com and amazon.fr. Fix cover display in Diesel ebooks store.
  • HTML Input: Fix regression that broke processing of a small fraction of HTML files encoded in a multi-byte character encoding.
  • Greatly reduce the delay at the end of a bulk metadata edit operation that operates on a very large number (thousands) of books
  • Template language: Fix the subitems formatter function to split only when the period is surrounded by non-white space and not another period
  • Fix ampersands in titles not displaying in the Cover Browser
  • MOBI Output: Do not ignore an empty anchor at the end of a block element.
  • MOBI Output: Handle links to inline anchors placed inside large blocks of text correctly, i.e. the link should not point to the start of the block.
  • E-book viewer: Fix searching for text that is represented as entities in the underlying HTML.
  • Have the Esc shortcut perform exactly the same set of actions as clicking the clear button.
  • Prevent the adding books dialog from becoming too wide
  • Fix custom column editing not behaving correctly with the Previous button in the edit metadata dialog.
  • T1 driver. More fixes to datetime handling to try to convince the T1’s buggy firmware to not rescan metadata.
  • Only allow searching via non accented author names if the user interface language in calibre is set to English.

(Via calibre Changelog.)

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