calibre 0.6.0 released

[kovidgoyal]

@new: Just delete the o.5 calibre folder to uninstall. Dont worry about left behinf preferences, 0.6 automatically upgrades them.

@bmfrosty: Sure, go ahead, I wont promise to implement all your ideas, but I always welcome feedback

@AlexBell: I love Biggles, read all the books, unfortunately, could only find a couple in didgital format, the last time I looked

[kovidgoyal]

@sherryk_us: It may just be taking a longer time than before. Have you tried waiting?

[sherryk_us]

I waited about a half an hour the first time, but only 10 or 15 minutes the second and third time.

BTW importing new books seems to work really well and faster than with the previous version of Calibre! Weird.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Sherry

[p3aul]

I upgraded and was hoping to convert from epub to text like the "New Features" said it could, but I can't find the right command-line program. It's not any2txt or epub2txt. Which one is it?
Thanks,
Paul

Never mind. I was able to accomplish this in the GUI.
Paul

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by sherryk_us

I waited about a half an hour the first time, but only 10 or 15 minutes the second and third time.

BTW importing new books seems to work really well and faster than with the previous version of Calibre! Weird.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Sherry

Can you please open a ticket, and I'll look into it. Too many forum posts today to keep track of.

[kovidgoyal]

@p3aul: All the old conversion commands have been consolidated into a single command called ebook-convert

So for example

ebook-convert myfile.epub output.txt

[Garfunkel]

Kovid, please fix the FB2 input plugin TOC auto-creation issue. I've opened the ticket (#2814). I contacted the author of the plugin (Anatoly Shipitsin). See the details in the ticket info. Thanx.

[pars_andy]

Originally Posted by Elsi

This would be an excellent enhancement -- and I look forward to it.

I agree. Sadly i've read that it's not on the immediate 'to do' list at the moment though unless someone else wants to have a bash at developing the plug in. Unfortunately i'm just about able to program my dvd recorder but not much else so i doubt i'm going to be able to help in any way!

[Eagleeye]

One hint: for linux (at least, for ubuntu 9.04): you have to make sure, that the libphonon-package is installed. Especially the sources. Else you get the following messages (and calibre will not work):
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/init.py", line 43, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/linux.py", line 8, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/customize/ui.py", line 11, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/customize/builtins.py", line 339, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/output.py", line 18, in <module>
File "/home/kovid/work/calibre/src/calibre/ebooks/pdf/writer.py", line 22, in <module>
File "ExtensionLoader_PyQt4_QtWebKit.py", line 12, in <module>
ImportError: libphonon.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

@Kovidgayal: it is possible to include these packages into the linux-binary?

[kacir]

Instalation in Mint Linux works perfectly.
I have just pasted the commandline from the download page into terminal window. No problem with old versions of libraries.

Thank you Kovid very, very much.

I hope that Sony engineers and Sony management pay attention. Sony Library has only fraction of features of Calibre.

[kovidgoyal]

@Eagleeye: I've added a note about libphonon to the download page. Adding it to the binary is not an option as it has a whole list of its own dependencies

@kacir: Glad to hear it

[p3aul]

@p3aul: All the old conversion commands have been consolidated into a single command called ebook-convert

So for example

Code:

ebook-convert myfile.epub output.tx

Oh I gotcha! Thanks, Kovid!

[=X=]

Originally Posted by user_none

Thanks =X=, I realized it it was detecting the numbers after the unicode character once I got a look at those screen shots of how it was supposed to render. I've closed it out and according to Kovid the fix made it into 0.6.0.

Hi user_none,
Ah okay, Thanks I'll try it out

Also thank you for the the eReader conversion that is one of the features I've been most exited about in the 6 release esp since the eReader price are so attractive compared to some of the other formats.

BTW I've tried Outliers and there are some more problems. I'll write a trouble report and show some of the pictures when I have some time.

[Mitchll]

Kudos to Kovid and all who work with him. A great job well done!!!


Mitch

[Berkyb]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Eagleeye: I've added a note about libphonon to the download page. Adding it to the binary is not an option as it has a whole list of its own dependencies

@kacir: Glad to hear it

I'm a linux newbie working on a dell mini netbook. I had no problems using the previous version of Calibre but am getting this error upon trying to install version 6: ImportError: libphonon.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've installed libphonon4 and libphonon-dev but continue to get the error. I've been reading message boards, the ubuntu community forums, and anything else I can find to fix the problem myself but keep coming up with nothing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheri