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Calibre updated to 0.7.39
January 14, 2011 | 4:14 pm

calibre.png New Features A new 'highlight matches' search mode RTF Input: Improved support for conversion of images. The bug where some images were shrunk should no longer happen Template language: Allow you to create your own formatting functions. Accessible via Preferences->Advanced->Template functions News download: Convert various HTML 5 tags into to support readers that cannot handle HTML 5 tags RTF metadata: Add support for publisher and tags. BibTeX catalog: Add support for custom columns TXT Input: Support for textile markup Various minor tweaks to improve usability of Preferences->Plugins TXT Output: Convert to scene break marker. Support for the Archos 70 SONY Driver: Add an option to automatically refresh the covers...

Calibre updated to 0.7.38
January 9, 2011 | 12:13 pm

calibre.pngNew Features * Reduce startup time when using a composite custom column * Template language: Add a list_item function for use with tags like columns. See User Manual for details * TXT Input: Attempt to detect the input encoding when not specified. Auto detect paragraph structure and formatting markup. * Search & replace: Add ability to manipulate number and boolean columns. * Add type ahead completion to the advanced search dialog. * Double click on plugin in Preferences dialog to customize ...

Touched by an iPod again
January 5, 2011 | 2:36 am

One of the best surprises I got this Christmas was the gift of a used iPod Touch by my sister-in-law. She belongs to an iPhone family, and they’ve gotten so many iPhones over the course of the last few years that the Touch, originally bought for the kids to play with, was relegated to sitting around unused for months since the kids get to play with the older-generation iPhones now. And as a result, I have an iPod Touch again for the first time since losing my original one in June. It’s just a 1st-generation model, and only 8...

Calibre updated to 0.7.36
January 1, 2011 | 4:15 pm

calibre.png New Features Tag browser: Add subcategories and search Device drivers for the Google Nexus S, Motorola Backflip, Samsung Galaxy Tablet, PocketBook 603/903, EEEReader DR900 and the NextBook Tag editor dialog now remebers its last used size OS X dmg: Add a symlink pointing to the Applications folder for easy installation Catalog generation: CSV/XML catalogs now support custom fields. Also write UTF-8 BOM to CSV output file. EPUB/MOBI catalogs: Various new features SONY driver: Allow the creation of an All by Something category via the tweaks. Add a tweak to control the delay when sending mails using gmail or hotmail. Add output encoding option for TXT/PDB/PMLX output plugins to...

Calibre updated to 0.7.33
December 10, 2010 | 5:53 pm

calibre.pngNew Features Language sensitive sorting Add an action to merge only formats and leave metadata alone (Shift+Alt+M) Add a tweak to control which custom columns are displayed in the Book details panel. Implement a more sophisticated 'functional programming' template language. See the User Manual for details. Speed up deleting of large numbers of books and show progress while doing so Adding books: Dont refresh the Tag Browser while adding multiple books. Should speed up the adding of large numbers of books. Edit metadata dialog: When trying to download metadata, if there are multiple matches indicate which matches have a cover and summary in the list. Also add...

Calibre updated to 0.7.32
December 3, 2010 | 2:47 pm

Calibre.jpegNew Features All new linux binary build. With updated libraries and replacing cx_Freeze with my own C python launcher code. Edit metadata dialog: Add Next and Previous buttons and show cover size in tooltip A new custom column type: Enumeration. This column can take one of a user defined set of values. PML Output: Add option to reduce image sizes/bit depth to allow PML Output to be used with DropBook TXT Output: Add option to generate Markdown output. Turn tags into spaces. Add a count function to the template language. Make author_sort searchable. Various consistency and usability enhancements to the search box. Driver for samsung fascinate and PocketBook...

Calibre 0.7.31 releases
November 27, 2010 | 4:16 pm

Bug Fixes Fix various regressions in the calibre windows build caused by the switch to python 2.7. If you are on windows and upgraded to 0.7.30, it is highly recommended that you upgrade to 0.7.31. If you are not on windows, you can ignore 0.7.31...

Calibre 0.7.30 released
November 26, 2010 | 6:04 pm

calibre.pngNew Features Support for Acer Lumiread and PocketBook Pro 602 When importing by ISBN also allow the specification of a file to be imported. E-mail sending: Email sends are now regular jobs that can be accessed from the jobs list. Also when sending using gmail/hotmail send at most one email every five minutes to avoid trigerring their spam controls. Failed sends are now retried one more time, automatically. Content server: When a category contains only one item, go directly to the book list instead of forcing the user to click on that one item E-mail sending: Allow unencrypted connections to SMTP relay Improve startup times for...

Calibre 0.7.29 released
November 21, 2010 | 9:22 am

Calibre.jpegNew Features OSX binary build is now based on Qt 4.7. Also, the build is now Intel only and requires at least OS X 10.5.2. If you are on a PowerPC machine or an older OS X version, do not upgrade Content server: Allow direct navigation to a set of books in the book list. OS X: When deleting books, put the files into the recycle bin instead of deleting them permanently Add button to easy configure Hotmail as email relay. Also improve usability of easy config buttons Kobo driver: Support Currently_Reading category Catalog generation: Thumbnail caching, wishlist, improved description layout. Support for the Cybook Orizon Bug Fixes Fix...

Calibre updated to 0.7.28
November 13, 2010 | 2:34 pm

calibre.pngNew Features Update the version of the grahical toolkit (Qt 4.7.1) used in the calibre binary builds on windows and linux. This should result in a significant speed up for the calibre ebook viewer Driver for Nook Color, Eken M001 Add a tweak to turn off double clicking to open viewer Catalog generation: Add indication when a book has no formats Advanced search dialog: Add a tab to allow searching particular metadata fields easily Conversion pipeline: When using the Level x Table of Contents expressions, if a tag is empty but has a non-empty title attribute, use that instead of ignoring the tag Bug Fixes Comic metadata reader:...

Calibre 0.7.27 released
November 6, 2010 | 3:59 pm

Calibre.jpegNew Features The book list behavior has changed Added a new HTML output format plugin, which converts the input document to a ZIP file. The zip file contains HTML pages suitable for display in a website Support for iRiver Cover Story and Digma Q600 Add a search button (labelled Go!) to explicitly run a search with the text currently in the quick search box Add author to the calibre geenrated book jacket Add the title of the destination book to the merge dialog warning message calibre-server: Make auto reload control separate from --devlop with a new command line option --auto-reload Bug Fixes Fix book details panel not being updated...

Calibre 0.7.26 released
October 30, 2010 | 7:17 pm

calibre.png New Features Check library: Allow wildcards in ignore names field Bug Fixes Fix regression in 0.7.25 that broke reading metadata from filenames. Fix regression in 0.7.25 that caused original files to be mistakenly removed when adding books recursively. Fix long series/publisher causing edit metadata in bulk dialog to become very large. Only add SONY periodical code to downloaded news if output profile is set to one of the SONY reader profiles. This is needed because the ever delightful Stanza crashes and burns when an EPUB has the periodical code....