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Toxic maintainer. Kovid Goyal is known to be abrasive. I'm looking for good examples. But maybe I've just seen the other end of the arguments and he's okay? I'm guessing the best bits are hidden here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/ Like eg this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/853934
And of course the infamous "calibre-mount-helper" fiasco: http://lwn.net/Articles/465311/
I don't suppose he's backtracked on his awful position on auto-updates?
Someone has packaged it for Windows using the Chocolatey NuGet package manager: http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre I'm sure OS X has something similar, but I wouldn't know where to find it.
[0]: http://caskroom.io/ [1]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask [2]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
I don't suppose he's backtracked on his awful position on auto-updates?
More recently my reading habits have changed and I much prefer to go directly for my books on my desktop. I've uninstalled calibre now. All I really need is a cli or a basic client (much like ncmpc for mpd) for my books. I'm looking for something along those lines, and am also planning to do a hobby project for that if the urge grows.
[0] On every Arch Linux update.
One thing that really sucks still is the conversion of PDFs (for e.g. journal articles) into formats suitable for e-ink readers. I've tinkered with its heuristic processing and regex formatting, but I'd never considered manually touching up the final .epub as it comes. If their ebook editor is any good I might start reading journal articles again.
This converter is reasonable: http://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/ I wonder if someone has done a Calibre plugin for it.
Edit: I gave it a test run, and found it does the job very well. Thank you again!
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Someone has packaged it for Windows using the Chocolatey NuGet package manager: http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre I'm sure OS X has something similar, but I wouldn't know where to find it.
OSX has homebrew-cask [0, 1], which is built on homebrew to distribute binaries. I checked and a formula for calibre is present. [2] [0]: http://caskroom.io/ [1]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask [2]: https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/...
Currently I'm using an alias to clear the old binary and download the new one. [1]
[0] https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/issues/309
[1] https://blog.notmyhostna.me/make-calibre-updates-less-annoyi...
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I completely agree. I talked with the Calibre leader some years ago offering my help with the UX, and he didn't seem to have any interest in simplifying the UI. It's his app, and he wants it to have as much features as possible. It's great for many people but not for the majority I believe. I stopped using it because I can't stand the UI :(
What do you use instead? Calibre has a rather large amount of features, but they are hard to find :) Edit: if someone were to publish independent mockups for a new Calibre UX, it could motivate community feedback and/or dev contributions. The ebook market is larger now than a few years ago, given the rise of mobile.
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I was so excited to see this headline specifically because I hoped they would be doing a UI overhaul. Unfortunately, that just seems to not be the case or even on the horizon. I'd definitely consider dedicating time with it, but I've heard nothing but bad things about trying to work with the maintainers of the code.
Calibre makes it dead simple to manage a library of ebooks and allows you to do just about anything that can be done with them. That's the definition of a good UI. Whether it follows modern design trends is irrelevant. A UI overhaul would be a terrible idea.
Does it still refuse to index without managing? A quick glance at the documentation says yes.
I'm sure calibre 2.0 is a great technical feat, and kudos for all the work put into this product, but judging by the screenshot the user interface is equally clunky as in 1.0. This software does mostly everything I need it for to convert ebooks... but can you, the authors, please improve the UI?
I use calibre for converting web pages I want to read offline into epub, but then I use the file manager to transfer the epub onto my device - it seems to be the easiest way.
Also, on every single conversion I have to tell it again that I don't want a huge margin. Why would I want to make my e-reader's screen ever smaller?
Maybe it's best to build a whole new app out of the low-level libraries and tools that make calibre. A simple app with a simple UI.
One thing that really sucks still is the conversion of PDFs (for e.g. journal articles) into formats suitable for e-ink readers. I've tinkered with its heuristic processing and regex formatting, but I'd never considered manually touching up the final .epub as it comes. If their ebook editor is any good I might start reading journal articles again.
I tried all sorts of other things, but this was the least painful.