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More bug fixes going into the release of 0.6. I don’t have much of a time frame for when it will be released. However, the betas are pretty stable. If you decide to upgrade to the beta make a copy of your metadata.db file. Upgrading to 0.6 will upgrade this file and prevent you from going back to 0.5.

Tags: calibre.

The bulk of what I’ve done this week was the many bug fixes going into the Calibre beta.

The one other thing I worked on was bring image extraction back to PDF input. It works as well as the 0.5.x series now. Meaning it will handle simple cases but there are still some bugs.

Tags: pdf.

The beta for 0.6 has been out for about a week now. I’ve been spending my time fixing bugs. Thanks to everyone on Mobile Read who is helping with testing.

Tags: calibre.

This week hasn’t seen very much in the way of new features from me. I’ve only added one. This is mainly because I’ve been doing small bug fixes leading up to the beta for 0.6.

The new feature, which Kovid helped me to implement, is ejecting the reader from within the GUI. When you mouse over the reader icon in the location list it will show an eject button next to the icon. Clicking the eject button will do just that, safely remove the device from the system and remove it from the location listing. I did the GUI work, created the interface for the device driver and added the Linux ejection code. Kovid added the OS X code and we both came up with a Window solution but his was more robust to it was used.

Tags: calibre, device interfaces, ebook, GUI.