Overdrive's mobile site updated; Improved access to the way apps & eBook

The digital library blog from Overdrive has announced, the mobile "virtual branch Web site provided to partner a facelift got."

The redesigned site is for the "virtual branch" mobile Web site, which (through partners) is available to all users without having to an app download. of course, user sees only title for your library available.

Is it very nice to see this Update.Warum?It is easy to forget that many mobile users access to apps or (for whatever reason) want to download.

The mobile Web site get another update in December, when Overdrive free apps for iPhone and Android and begin accessing some e Bücher.BlackBerry and Windows phone apps will follow.

Finally, starting today the mobile version of OverDrive "Virtual Library" automatically detects the mobile browser used will, and a page for the specific device optimiert.Wenn that new apps will be released the automatic browser detection also determine the e book materials available for a specific device.

Unfortunately some eBook formats are to make eBook access a bit more difficult only on certain devices available.

You can read the full text of the Overdrive announcement and see a screenshot of the new mobile Web interface here.

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Caliber updated to 0.7.8

New features

Prepare new tool EPUBs for publication
New icons for the toolbar buttons Kamil Tatara
Display of rating (if available) in cover browser
Click the Central cover int cover browser now open the book in the viewer
Using the status bar instead of the area right from the location view status information display
Driver for the Pandigital novel e-book reader

Bug fixes

News download: Do not enter a font family for article descriptions
News download: Fix regression introduced in 0.7.0, that broke download of some embedded content feeds
MOBI output: Partial support for nested superscript and subscript.
CHM input: Fix handling of buggy CHM files with no .hhc
EPUB input: Fix bug in unzipping EPUB files that have been zipped in depth first order have.
TXT input: Convert HTML entities to a character.
LRF input: Handle LRF files with random zero bytes in the text
Kobo driver: Fix detection of txt/html files on the device
Fix is opening the books for not associated with the calibre library on a network share in Windows
SONY drivers: added books update only the timestamp in the XML DB for newly
Cover browser: Fix rendering the Center cover if width cover browser is less than the width of a single cover
To cover browser: correct fix for SetPixel outside the alert causes UI slowdown caliber

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Quick Note: Kobo for Android smartphones now available; Stanza updated

According to eBookNewser the application has been released for smartphones. They are reporting that Kobo has said it will support other Android devices such as tablets, netbooks and ereaders in the near future.

More info here.

Just noticed that Stanza has been updated. Here’s what the App Store says: Improved stability when upgrading with extremely large libraries; Fix for some CBZ import failures; Make status bar black when hide status preference is disabled; Use PDF keywords as subjects when importing PDFs

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