Why do people like calibre?
I really like the ability to email an ebook to my Kindle, even auto-converting it to the correct format.
New in Calibre 6.0
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#32Why do people like calibre?
For way too many years, there was no other way to read Apple's own E-books on a Mac. It was baffling. That's how I discovered Calibre.
Now that Books was finally added to Mac OS, I've put all of them in there so I can sync collections across all my (albeit Apple-only) devices.
Re: New in Calibre 6.0
#33Does it scale correctly on windows yet? Is that part of QT6?
We made an app in Qt 5 (all QML) that scales well on Windows, so I don't know what the problem would be.
We did have to add special cases for font sizes on Windows, because auto-sized fonts looked like shit there, whereas on Mac they looked fine.
Re: New in Calibre 6.0
#34Would love to see an Audio book plugin.
plug-in
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#35> Fortunately, plugin developers were given over half a year to port their plugins, so most have already been ported. I do admire this optimism and good faith. But no... many will not have ported until users start complaining that X plugin no longer works. Expect a few more months.
Specifically the amazon decryption ones are quite fussy - which to me seems quite critical
Re: New in Calibre 6.0
#36Why do people like calibre?
I wish most software would be like Calibre. Feature-packed yet discoverable with an almost no bullshit / no wasted space UI
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Calibre does its job so well it's downright essential for anyone thinking about dealing with ebooks. Its “job” is not well-defined. I read electronic books almost exclusively (for prose fiction; art and equations are a different bag) since 2008 or so, and never saw any point in it beyond format conversion. It does format conversion very well. The command-line converter requires a running graphical session for some…
I use it extensively for managing the books on my devices (Kobo Libre, and my wife has an old Kindle).
What’s there to manage? They are files. Read a book, copy a new book over, delete old book. A file manager does all that, and is simpler and easier.
Re: New in Calibre 6.0
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it extensively for managing the books on my devices (Kobo Libre, and my wife has an old Kindle).
What’s there to manage? They are files. Read a book, copy a new book over, delete old book. A file manager does all that, and is simpler and easier.
If I knew how to do that on either the Kobo Libre or the Kindle 2012 model, I'd do it. As it is, Calibre is very easy to use anyway.
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#39Kovid Goyal, the developer of Calibre, is a very responsive, very gentle person. Whenever I needed help, I have gotten help from him. [1] - Calibre is an indispensable tool for me to manage my digital library with close to 800 books. I support him regularly. Consinder doing it as well if you appreciate the app. Go to https://calibre-ebook.com/ , there’s a support link on the top right. [1] This is the forum dedicated…
OT, but he also happens to be the developer of kitty, my favorite terminal emulator on Linux: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it extensively for managing the books on my devices (Kobo Libre, and my wife has an old Kindle).
What’s there to manage? They are files. Read a book, copy a new book over, delete old book. A file manager does all that, and is simpler and easier.
Most (all commercially available?$ebook readers are not as simple as that.
And a file manager doesn’t track which books of mine are synced and which are not. Calibre does.
A file manager does not make it easy for me to correct the ebook’s metadata so it appears properly on the ebook reader. Calibre does. Calibre will also automatically download metadata for you from a variety of sources (with many options for the level of automation, including individual review with diffs from the existing metadata).
Calibre also makes it trivial for me to create a web server so I can access my books from any device from anywhere.
Calibre will also track which books I’ve read and which ones I haven’t. Which a file manager won’t.
Calibre also makes it possible for me to read the books on my computer itself before I sync them to my device.
Calibre will also automatically convert my book to a different format depending on the device I’m syncing to, something a file manager won’t do either.