The Digital Reader

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 < 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 ‘#’

About calibre

Calibre is a free open source tool program that helps you use your e-reader.  It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and can be used to convert files (to a format used by your device) and then transfer the ebooks to your e-reader. You can create ebooks in almost every format available, and then read them on virtually all devices in existence. Find out more at calibre.