calibre: E-book management »calibre 0.8.7

calibre 0.8.7: "

New Features

• Connect to iTunes: You now need to tell iTunes to keep its own copy of every ebook. Do this in iTunes by going to Preferences->Advanced and setting the 'Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library' option. To learn about why this is necessary, see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=140260


• Add a couple of date related functions to the calibre template langauge to get 'todays' date and create text based on the value of a date type field


• Improved reading of metadata from FB2 files, with support for reading isbns, tags, published date, etc.


• Driver for the Imagine IMEB5


• Show the currently used network proxies in Preferences->Miscellaneous


• Kobo Touch driver: Show Favorites as a device collection. Various other minor fixes.


• Content server now sends the Content-Disposition header when sending ebook files.


• Allow search and replace on comments custom columns.


• Add a new action 'Quick View' to show the books in your library by the author/tags/series/etc. of the currently selected book, in a separate window. You can add it to your toolbar or right click menu by going to Preferences->Toolbars.


• Get Books: Add libri.de as a book source. Fix a bug that caused some books downloads to fail. Fixes to the Legimi and beam-ebooks.de stores

Bug Fixes

• Fix a memory leak that could result in the leaking of several MB of memory with large libraries


• Fix the read metadata from format button in the edit metadata dialog using the wrong timezone when setting published date


• Generating catalog: Fix occassional file in use errors when generating catalogs on windows


• Fix clicking on News in Tag Browser not working in non English locales.


• HTML Input: Fix a regression in 0.8.6 that caused CSS stylesheets to be ignored


• Fix a regression that caused restore database to stop working on some windows sytems


• EPUB Output: Convert
  tags with text in them into as ADE cannot handle them.

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