Calibre updated to 0.6.52

By Paul Biba

New Features

Support for the Kobo Reader and the HTC Desire

PDB Input: Add support for PDB files created with incorrect encodings

EPUB Output: Make the file size splitting algorithm more intelligent. If a split results in a tree that is very small, choose another split point.

Add an entry to the Fetch News menu to fetch all scheduled news

MOBI Output: When inserting metadata, hide the searchable version of the tags (append with ttt).

They are still searchable, but not visible.
Bug Fixes

HTML Input: Handle case sensitive file systems on OS X

EPUB Output: When rescaling PNG images, write out the rescaled data in PNG format as ADE cannot handle JPEG data in a PNG file

SONY drivers: Fix corner case that could cause errors when transferring books with series to the device.

Allow users to set the content server port to less than 1025 (system ports) with a warning.

Don’t popup an error message when adding books if the cover is not a valid image

SONY drivers: Fix bug that prevented detection SD cards that had the Sony Reader/database folders, but no cache.xml

EPUB Input: Handle invalid EPUB files that have manifest entries pointing to non existent files
Fix the get cover/metadata from specific format buttons when the user has chosen to read metadata only from filenames

Conversion pipeline: More robust conversion of HTML tags to text when detecting structure

Fix ‘Open containing folder’ does not work if the path name contains ‘#’