Calibre

New Features

  • E-book viewer: Allow the up and down keys to scroll past section boundaries
  • calibredb: Allow specification of basic metadata on the command line when adding books.
  • Driver for Samsung Galaxy Plus GT-I9001
  • KF8 Input: Support KF8 format Amazon book samples.
  • When a new plugin is added to calibre for the first time, have its icon (if any) show up even when a device is connected (this can be changed by the user at the time of plugin installation)
  • Add keyboard shortcuts for Bold, Italic and Underline to the comments editor in the edit metadata dialog

Bug Fixes

  • E-book viewer: Fix last read position (and bookmarks in general) being inaccurate for some books.
  • Workarounds for a few regressions in the user interface in 0.8.44 caused by the update to Qt 4.8.0
  • Books list: Preserve the horizontal scroll position when sorting by a column
  • Fix saving to disk and then adding the book back not restoring tags-like custom columns
  • Linux installer: Fix completion for ebook-convert not working.
  • MOBI Output: Recognize type=text in addition to type=start guide elements
  • Get Books: Updates to Nexto, Ebookpoint and Woblink stores
  • Fix unable to clear username/password in Fetch news dialog
  • PDF Output: Fix margin specifications not being applied
  • Linux installer: Manually preserve the defaults.list mimetype association file to workaround buggy xdg-desktop-menu implementations in some distros.
  • E-book viewer: Fix regression that caused the ebook viewer to stop functioning if it is launched from the main calibre program and then the main calibre program is closed.

(Via calibre Changelog.)

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