diff --git a/recipes/independent.recipe b/recipes/independent.recipe
index f024032b53..c7beac12c8 100644
--- a/recipes/independent.recipe
+++ b/recipes/independent.recipe
@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@ from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, Tag, NavigableString
 
 
 class TheIndependentNew(BasicNewsRecipe):
-
+    
+     #used for converting rating to stars
+    _STAR_URL = 'http://www.independent.co.uk/skins/ind/images/rating_star.png'
+    _NO_STAR_URL = 'http://www.independent.co.uk/skins/ind/images/rating_star_grey.png'
+   
+   
     title                   = u'The Independent'
     __author__              = 'Will'
     description             = 'The latest in UK News and World News from The \
@@ -44,12 +49,26 @@ class TheIndependentNew(BasicNewsRecipe):
                                h1{font-family: Georgia,serif }
                                body{font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif}
                                img{margin-bottom: 0.4em; display:block}
-                               .byline,.image,.dateline{font-size: x-small; color:#888888}
+                               .starRating img {float: left}
+                               .starRating {margin-top:0.4em; display: block}
+                               .image {clear:left; font-size: x-small; color:#888888;}
+                               .articleByTimeLocation {font-size: x-small; color:#888888;
+                                margin-bottom:0.2em ; margin-top:0.2em ; display:block}
+                                .subtitle {clear:left}
+                               .column-1 h1 { color: #191919}
+                               .column-1 h2 { color: #333333}
+                               .column-1 h3 { color: #444444}
+                               .column-1 p { color: #777777}
+                               .column-1 p,a,h1,h2,h3 { margin: 0; }
+                               .column-1 div{color:#888888; margin: 0;}
+                               .articleContent {display: block; clear:left;}
                             """                     
     
     oldest_article = 1
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
     
+    
+    
     def preprocess_html(self, soup):
         for item in soup.findAll(attrs={'class' : re.compile("widget.*")}):
             remove = True
@@ -115,13 +134,40 @@ class TheIndependentNew(BasicNewsRecipe):
 	                subtitle.extract()
                 
         
+        
+        #replace rating numbers with stars
+        for item in soup.findAll('div',attrs={ 'class' : 'starRating'}):
+            if item is not None:
+                soup2 = self._insertRatingStars(soup,item)
+            if soup2 is not None:
+                soup = soup2
+        
+        
         return soup
         
-        
+    
+    
+    def _insertRatingStars(self,soup,item):
+        if item.contents is None:
+            return
+        rating = item.contents[0]
+        if not rating.isdigit():
+            return None
+        rating = int(item.contents[0])    
+        for i in range(1,6):
+            star = Tag(soup,'img')
+            if i <= rating:
+                star['src'] = self._STAR_URL
+            else:
+                star['src'] = self._NO_STAR_URL
+            star['alt'] = 'star number ' +  str(i)
+            item.insert(i,star)
+        #item.contents[0] = NavigableString('(' + str(rating) + ')')
+        item.contents[0] = '' 
         
     def postprocess_html(self,soup, first_fetch):
         #find broken images and remove captions
-        for item in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class' : 'byline'}):
+        for item in soup.findAll('div', attrs={'class' : 'image'}):
             img = item.findNext('img')
             if img is not None and img['src'] is not None:
                 # broken images still point to remote url       
diff --git a/src/calibre/db/__init__.py b/src/calibre/db/__init__.py
index cde01b5f01..5d12bdc686 100644
--- a/src/calibre/db/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/db/__init__.py
@@ -66,4 +66,6 @@ Various things that require other things before they can be migrated:
                     functionality.
     2. Catching DatabaseException and sqlite.Error when creating new
     libraries/switching/on calibre startup.
+    3. From refresh in the legacy interface: Rember to flush the composite
+    column template cache.
 '''
diff --git a/src/calibre/db/cache.py b/src/calibre/db/cache.py
index 0e5af216a8..e79d496cd9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/db/cache.py
+++ b/src/calibre/db/cache.py
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ class Cache(object):
         self.read_lock, self.write_lock = create_locks()
         self.record_lock = RecordLock(self.read_lock)
         self.format_metadata_cache = defaultdict(dict)
+        self.formatter_template_cache = {}
 
         # Implement locking for all simple read/write API methods
         # An unlocked version of the method is stored with the name starting
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ class Cache(object):
             return self.backend.format_abspath(book_id, fmt, name, path)
 
     def _get_metadata(self, book_id, get_user_categories=True): # {{{
-        mi = Metadata(None)
+        mi = Metadata(None, template_cache=self.formatter_template_cache)
         author_ids = self._field_ids_for('authors', book_id)
         aut_list = [self._author_data(i) for i in author_ids]
         aum = []
diff --git a/src/calibre/devices/misc.py b/src/calibre/devices/misc.py
index efde36591e..4f3e914f75 100644
--- a/src/calibre/devices/misc.py
+++ b/src/calibre/devices/misc.py
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ class TREKSTOR(USBMS):
 
     VENDOR_NAME = 'TREKSTOR'
     WINDOWS_MAIN_MEM = WINDOWS_CARD_A_MEM = ['EBOOK_PLAYER_7',
-            'EBOOK_PLAYER_5M']
+            'EBOOK_PLAYER_5M', 'EBOOK-READER_3.0']
 
 class EEEREADER(USBMS):
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py b/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py
index 69565e07d7..45d80839b2 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/save_to_disk.py
@@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ def get_components(template, mi, id, timefmt='%b %Y', length=250,
     tsorder = tweaks['save_template_title_series_sorting']
     format_args = FORMAT_ARGS.copy()
     format_args.update(mi.all_non_none_fields())
+    if mi.is_null('author_sort'):
+        format_args['author_sort'] = _('Unknown')
     if mi.title:
         if tsorder == 'strictly_alphabetic':
             v = mi.title