calibre 0.9.35

v0.9.34 [06-12-13]

New Features

• Conversion of Microsoft Word documents (.docx files generated by Word 2007 or newer) DOCX files created with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer can now be converted by calibre. The converter has support for lists, tables, images, all types of text formatting, footnotes, endnotes and even dropcaps. A sample docx file showing the capabilities of the converter is available: http://calibre-ebook.com/downloads/demos/demo.docx Note that this code is still very new, so there are more than likely a few bugs waiting to be squashed.
• Kobo driver: Support for the newly released firmware 2.6.1. Also remove empty shelves from the Aura HD home page when deleting books. Closes tickets: 1187791
• E-book viewer: Add Keyboard shortcuts for Back and Forward (Alt+Left, Alt+Right) Closes tickets: 1186928
• Allow right clicking on an author in Book Details to manage that author, i.e. change the author name, sort value or link. Closes tickets: 1186192

• Fix regression that broke FB2 input in the previous release. Closes tickets: 1186213
• Catalog generation on OS X: Fix handling of some unicode characters Closes tickets: 1066922
• HTML Input: Avoid spurious log warnings about unspecified language/creator when these are actually specified on the command line. Closes tickets: 1186899
• MOBI Output: Fix regression in 0.9.31 that caused vertical margins specified on some block level elements to be ignored. Closes tickets: 1186533
• ToC Editor: Handle ebooks that have

  tags inside the tags. Instead of erroring out, the

  tags are automatically moved into . Closes tickets: 1186298

• Linux build: Include the ffi libs from both gcc and libffi. Closes tickets: 1186148
• When deleting custom recipes, use recycle bin. Closes tickets: 1186142

• Seventh Guard by koliberek

• Folha de Sao Paolo
• Metro News NL

v0.9.33 [06-02-13]

New Features

• PDF Output: Add an option to generate a printable Table of Contents (that lists page numbers). Useful if you intend to print out the PDF.
• Replace the book counts in the choose library button and next to the virtual library button with the names of the current library and virtual library. The count information is now displayed in the status bar at the bottom.
• When reviewing downloaded metadata, add a button to view the book being reviewed. Closes tickets: 1184546
• Get Books: Add SONY Reader Store (Australia). Closes tickets: 1184524
• For users running calibre from source, note that calibre has moved to using git for source control. See http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=214465 for details

• Windows build: Update the version of Qt calibre uses to fix crashes on some Windows 8 64 bit machines with touchscreens
• Fix error when using _daysago in search queries. Closes tickets: 1185398
• Kobo driver: When deleting books from the Kobo Aura, do not leave empty entries on the home screen. Also show downloaded books stored in the SD card as on the card, not the main memory. Closes tickets: 1185294
• Get Books: Fix price information for Sony store incorrect, also fix libri.de store plugin
• Fix error generated when changing libraries with the quickview window open
• Fix regression that broke clicking on column headers in the device views

• Various Polish News sources by Tomasz Dlugoz

• Folha de Sao Paolo
• Various Polish news sources
• Melbourne Herald Sun
• Hindu Business Line
• .net magazine
• Pocket
• Tagesschau.de

v0.9.32 [05-29-13]

New Features

• Show the number of currently selected books in the status bar at the bottom of the book list
• Driver for PocketBook Touch 623 and Yarvik tablet Xenta 13c Closes tickets: 1182850, 1181669
• When editing dates such as published, allow pressing the minus key to clear the date and the = key to set the date to today. Closes tickets: 1181449

• EPUB/AZW3 Output: Fix regression that caused erros when trying to convert documents that have URLs with invalid (non-utf-8) quoting. Closes tickets: 1181049
• When backing up metadata automatically remove XML invalid chars, instead of erroring out
• ebook-viewer: Fix --debug-javascript option causing an error when running from a binary build on os x and linux
• Fix switch library dialog and menu both popping up when clicking the library button in some window managers
• Apple driver: Fix a regression in 0.9.31 that could cause sending books to the device to hang
• When setting metadata using the edit metadata dialog, convert newlines, tabs etc. to normal spaces Closes tickets: 1182268
• EPUB/AZW3 Output: Fix pages that contain only an svg image being regarded as empty and removed during splitting
• AZW3 Input: Handle files that use unnecessary svg: prefixes. Closes tickets: 1182257
• EPUB Input: Handle EPUB files that have no section in their OPF. Closes tickets: 1181546
• Get Books: Fix Foyles UK store plugin. Closes tickets: 1181494

• WirtschaftsWoche Online by Hegi

• Wall Street Journal
• Various Polish news sources
• Handelsblatt
• The Australian
• Las Vegas Review
• NME

v0.9.31 [05-24-13]

New Features

• Book list: Highlight the current cell in the book list, particularly convenient for usage with the keyboard.
• Allow creation of advanced rules for column icons.
• Driver for the limited edition SONY PRS-T2N
• MOBI Input: Add support for MOBI/KF8 files generated with the to be released kindlegen 2.9. Closes tickets: 1179144

• ToC Editor: Fix incorrect playOrders in the generated toc.ncx when editing the toc in an epub file. This apparently affects FBReader.
• PDF Input: Fix crashes on some malformed files, by updating the PDF library calibre uses (poppler 0.22.4)
• PDF Output: Ignore invalid links instead of erroring out on them. Closes tickets: 1179314
• MOBI Output: Fix space errorneously being removed when the input document contains a tag with leading space and sub-tags. Closes tickets: 1179216
• Search and replace wizard: Fix generated html being slightly different from the actual html in the conversion pipeline for some input formats (mainly HTML, CHM, LIT).

• nrc-next by Niels Giesen

• Weblogs SL
• .net magazine

v0.9.30 [05-13-13]

New Features

• Kobo driver: Add support for showing 'Archived' books on the device. Also up the supported firmware version to 2.5.3. Closes tickets: 1177677
• Driver for Blackberry 9790 Closes tickets: 1176607
• Add a tweak to turn off the highlighting of the book count when using a virtual library (Preferences->Tweaks)
• Add a button to clear the viewer search history in the viewer Preferences, under Miscellaneous
• Add keyboard shortcuts to clear the virtual Library and the additional restriction (Ctrl+Esc and Alt+Esc). Also use Shift+Esc to bring keyboard focus back tot he book list. Can be changed under Preferences->Keyboard
• Docx metadata: Read the language of the file, if present

• Kobo driver: Fix unable to read SD card on OS X/Linux Closes tickets: 1174815
• Content server: Fix unable to download ORIGINAL_* formats Closes tickets: 1177158
• Fix regression that broke searching for terms containing a quote mark Closes tickets: 1177114
• Fix regression that broke conversion of txt files when no input encoding is specified Closes tickets: 1176622
• When changing to a virtual library, refresh the Book Details panel. Closes tickets: 1176296
• Fix regression that caused searching for user categories to break. Closes tickets: 1176187
• Fix error when downloading only covers and reviewing downloaded metadata. Closes tickets: 1176253
• MOBI metadata: Strip XML unsafe unicode codepoints when reading metadata from MOBI files. Closes tickets: 1175965
• Txt Input: Use the gbk encoding for txt files with detected encoding of gb2312. Closes tickets: 1175974
• When pressing Ctrl+Home/End preserve the horizontal scroll position in the book list

• NSFW
• Go Comics
• Various Polish news sources
• The Sun

v0.9.29 [05-07-13]

New Features

• Bulk metadata download: Allow reviewing of the downloaded metadata before it is applied
• FB2 Output: Write ISBN, pubdate, tags and publisher metadata when creating fb2 files Closes tickets: 1174047

• When reading metadata from EPUB 3 files, use the first element rather than the last. Closes tickets: 1175184
• Fix regression causing the search query parser to not parse search string containing newlines/tabs instead of spaces correctly Closes tickets: 1174629
• Kobo driver: Fix covers written to wrong place on OS X/linux when books sent to SD card. Fix covers not sent to SD card is images directory missing. Closes tickets: 1174147, 1174126
• Fix 'Preferences->Behavior->Virtual library to use when this library is opened' being applied only on calibre startup and not when switching to the library
• PDF metadata: When rendering the first page as the cover, respect the PDF CropBox. Closes tickets: 1173795
• PDF Output: Fix link generation broken on windows when converting epubs if the filenames contained uppercase letters. Closes tickets: 1169795
• Tolino driver: Fix card and main memory swapped on windows Closes tickets: 1173544
• FB2 Output: Fix images being ignored when converting a EPUB with image filenames that contain URL unsafe characters. Closes tickets: 1173351
• EPUB Input: Fix page margins specified in Adobe page template files with incorrect mime-types not being removed.

• Diario Extra by Douglas Delgado

• The New Republic
• io9
• What if
• Orlando Sentinel
• Read It Later recipe
• Smithsonian
• Business Week Magazine

v0.9.28 [04-29-13]

New Features

• Virtual Libraries: Easily partition your large calibre library into smaller 'virtual' libraries A virtual library is a way to tell calibre to open only a subset of a normal library. For example, you might want to only work with books by a certain author, or books having only a certain tag. To use this feature, click the button labeled 'Virtual Library' to the left of the search bar. For details, see http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/virtual_libraries.html This feature used to be called 'Search restriction', the new virtual libraries are easier to use, but otherwise fulfil the same function.
• Book details panel: Allow copying of links in the book details panel by right clicking on them. Closes tickets: 1171963
• Kobo driver: Add support for the new Kobo Aura HD and firmware version 2.5.0 Closes tickets: 1169571, 1169968
• Metadata download: When showing downloaded covers, allow right clicking on a cover to view a full size version. Closes tickets: 1170544
• Driver for Easy player cyber book e touch and Droid 4 Closes tickets: 1171633, 1170763
• Edit ToC: Allow the size of the panels in the location view to be adjusted
• When copying to a library by path, make it more efficient to choose between moving and copying Closes tickets: 1168231
• When checking if a zip/rar file is a comic or contains a single ebook to be auto-extracted, ignore thumbs.db files inside the archive

• EPUB Input: Fix handling of EPUB files that contain images with non-ascii filenames. Closes tickets: 1171186
• Device driver: Detect Laser EB720 with newer firmware. Closes tickets: 1171341
• Fix bug in Danish translation causing books with language Ingush being incorrectly translated as Engelsk
• PDF Output: Fix hyperlinks not working when converting an EPUB whose individual files have names with URL unsafe characters. Closes tickets: 1169795
• Book polishing: Fix inserting cover into an epub with no cover could lead to incorrect guide entry if the opf is not at the root of the epub. Closes tickets: 1167941
• ZIP Output: Fix links containing backslashes on windows Closes tickets: 1169910
• Fix polishing of AZW3 files not working on OS X. Closes tickets: 1168789
• Polishing books: Fix polishing erroring out if the book being polished has no cover
• RTF Input: Add partial support for hyperlinks to web resources. Closes tickets: 1167562
• Fix book details panel showing incorrect info after deleting books from a connected device Closes tickets: 1172839

• Voice of America by Krittika Goyal
• Lightspeed Magazine by Jose Pinto
• The Feature by Jose Pinto

• NZZ Online
• Baltimore Sun
• Metro NL
• Financial Times
• EcoGeek
• comics.com
• Psychology Today
• Science News

v0.9.27 [04-14-13]

New Features

• Metadata download: Add two new sources for covers: Google Image Search and bigbooksearch.com. To enable them go to Preferences->Metadata download and enable the 'Google Image' and 'Big Book Search' sources. Google Images is useful for finding larger covers as well as alternate versions of the cover. Big Book Search searches for alternate covers from amazon.com. It can occasionally find nicer covers than the direct Amazon source. Note that both these sources download multiple covers for a single book. Some of these covers can be wrong (i.e. they may be of a different book or not covers at all, so you should inspect the results and manually pick the best match). When bulk downloading, these sources are only used if the other sources find no covers.
• Content server: Allow specifying a reestriction to use for the server when embedding it as a WSGI app. Closes tickets: 1167951
• Get Books: Add a plugin for the Koobe Polish book store
• calibredb add_format: Add an option to not replace existing formats. Also pep8 compliance.
• Allow restoring of the ORIGINAL_XXX format by right-clicking it in the book details panel

• AZW3 Input: Do not fail to identify JPEG images with 8BIM headers created with Adobe Photoshop. Closes tickets: 1167985
• Amazon metadata download: Ignore Spanish edition entries when searching for a book on amazon.com
• TXT Input: When converting a txt file with a Byte Order Mark, remove the Byte Order Mark before further processing as it can cause the first line of the text to be mis-interpreted.
• Get Books: Fix searching for current book/title/author by right clicking the get books icon
• Get Books: Update nexto, gutenberg, and virtualo store plugins for website changes
• Amazon metadata download: When downloading from amazon.co.jp handle the 'Black curtain redirect' for adult titles. Closes tickets: 1165628
• When extracting zip files do not allow maliciously created zip files to overwrite other files on the system
• RTF Input: Handle RTF files with invalid border style specifications Closes tickets: 1021270

• Economia by Manish Bhattarai
• Universe Today by seird
• The Galaxy's Edge by Krittika Goyal

• The Escapist
• San Francisco Chronicle
• The Onion
• Fronda
• Tom's Hardware
• New Yorker
• Financial Times UK
• Business Week Magazine
• Victoria Times
• tvxs
• The Independent

v0.9.25 [04-05-13]

New Features

• Automatic adding: When checking for duplicates is enabled, use the same duplicates found dialog as is used during manual adding. Closes tickets: 1160914
• ToC Editor: Allow searching to find a location quickly when browsing through the book to select a location for a ToC item
• ToC Editor: Add a button to quickly flatten the entire table of contents
• Conversion: When converting a single book to EPUB or AZW3, add an option to automatically launch the Table of Contents editor after the conversion completes. Found under the Table of Contents section of the conversion dialog.

• calibredb: Nicer error messages when user provides invalid input Closes tickets: 1160452, 1160631
• News download: Always use the .jpg extension for jpeg images as apparently Moon+ Reader cannot handle .jpeg
• Fix Book Details popup keyboard navigation doesn't work on a Mac Closes tickets: 1159610
• Fix a regression that caused the case of the book files to not be changed when changing the case of the title/author on case insensitive filesystems

• Fortune Magazine by Rick Shang
• Eclipse Online by Jim DeVona

• RTE news
• Various Polish news sources
• Psychology Today
• Foreign Affairs
• History Today
• Harpers Magazine (printed edition)
• Business Week Magazine
• The Hindu
• Irish Times
• Le Devoir

v0.9.23 [03-18-13]

New Features

• New tool: "Edit ToC" that allows you to edit or create a Table of Contents easily in EPUB or AZW3 ebooks. Using the Edit ToC tool, you can easily re-arrange the entries in an existing Table of Contents, change their text and even change the location they point to by simply clicking the new location in the book. To use this tool, go to Preferences->Toolbar and add the Edit ToC tool to the main toolbar. Then simply select the books you want to be polished and click the Edit ToC button. This tool is based on a new codebase, so there may be bugs.
• Content server: Enable use of plugboards for mobi and azw3 formats
• Windows driver for Tolino Shine Closes tickets: 1153536
• When copying books to another library, show the name of the destination library in the copy dialog Closes tickets: 1153407
• Allow running plugins from the command line with calibre-debug easily

• PDF Output: Fix bug causing left and right margins to be applied to the cover page. Also fix the preserve cover aspect ratio option not working correctly
• PDF Output: Fix javascript dialog box popping up in the middle on converting very long documents. Closes tickets: 1154948
• MOBI metadata: When setting the language in a MOBI file also update the language field in the EXTH header. Closes tickets: 1154351
• MOBI metadata: Support writing of book producer field into MOBI files. Closes tickets: 1154353
• Fix job progress and status not always updated Closes tickets: 1154137
• Fix conversion of zip.rar archives with very long title/author on windows Closes tickets: 1153859
• News download: Update the library used to parse RSS feeds. Closes tickets: 1152852
• Fix Irex Illiad not recognized on OS X computers Closes tickets: 824713
• Fix entering a very long search in the find item in tag browser box causes the tag browser to no longer be shrinkable. Closes tickets: 1152870
• Fix a bug in the zsh completion when converting for ebook-convert with PDF output

• Deccan Herald by Muruli Shamanna
• What If by kisnick
• The Friday Times by Unknown
• Computer Woche by Maria Seliger
• Lamebook by atordo

• Various Polish news sources
• Harpers Full
• kath.net
• Smithsonian

v0.9.22 [03-10-13]

New Features

• Linux driver for the Tolino ebook reader. Closes tickets: 1151901
• Kobo driver: Add support for the new 'Archived' collections in Kobo firmware 2.4.0 and improve handling recommendations and previews. Closes tickets: 1150852
• Metadata search and replace: Allow replacing the entire set of identifiers instead of only a specific identifier when doing a search and replace. To do this, choose a source field other than identifiers and set the destination identifier type to: *
• Show a brief description of every action when customizing toolbars in Preferences->Toolbars
• Allow drag and drop of books from the calibre book list onto the button for Convert book, Edit metadata, Remove Book, Tweak Book, Polish books, etc.

• CHM Input: Fix incorrect decoding for CHM files whose hhc file is also a content file. Closes tickets: 1151721
• Conversion: Add the double low quote to list of characters that are converted to ascii. Closes tickets: 1152207
• Amazon metadata download: Update plugin to handle changes to Amazon site that could cause some covers to not be downloaded. Also fix finding metadata for books with + in their titles.
• Content server: Fix a bug that prevented the cover being updated when files are downloaded from the content server
• Conversion: Handle the use of @import CSS rules inside