it seems like every time I open Calibre it wants to autoupdate.
Calibre – E-Book Management
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#13it seems like every time I open Calibre it wants to autoupdate.
nah it's worse, prompts for a manual download and update.
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#14Calibre just works and is great, but the user interface needs some work to modernize how it looks and to be less confusing in general. I'd love a fork that follows the Gnome Human Interface guidelines.
Yeah it's wild how the use case for 90% of users is "convert epub/mobi/whatever to azw3 and upload to kindle" and doing that is buried in several right click context menus... I'm comfortable doing it now but it seems as easy as having a left pane for books in my "library" and right pane for books on my device
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#15Calibre's interface isn't to my liking but since they added the possibility to manage collections/bookshelves ~two years ago for my almost ten year old kobo I love it a lot ^^. Managing collections/bookshelves on the Kobo is a major PITA.
Agreed, I'm very happy with their Kobo support.
A great discovery for me was that Calibre can convert to KEPUB (subset of EPUB tailored for Kobo readers).
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#16The one thing I really don't like about Calibre is how it will copy all of my ebooks into its own file organization. There is probably a way to disable this, but that is the default.
Kind of irritating when you have Calibre in a cloud-storage folder and your books are also in the cloud storage, and it uses up your space with duplicates.
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#17Calibre just works and is great, but the user interface needs some work to modernize how it looks and to be less confusing in general. I'd love a fork that follows the Gnome Human Interface guidelines.
I'm afraid that attempts to change it will ruin it, like many other things. Calibre just works and once you've learned how to use it, it's great that it doesn't change on you for no particular reason. I personally wish it remain unchanged.
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#18Calibre's interface isn't to my liking but since they added the possibility to manage collections/bookshelves ~two years ago for my almost ten year old kobo I love it a lot ^^. Managing collections/bookshelves on the Kobo is a major PITA.
Check out koreader for Kobo devices. I've been using it for a quite some time and it adds some nice Calibre features such as wireless sync. Besides that the PDF support is leaps ahead of stock Kobo
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#19Calibre is great. There’s a real lack of good quality ebook software and Calibre is an essential do-everything toolkit.
The interface, however, is like some incredible piece of outsider art, gloriously free of best practice, convention or accepted wisdom.
As a UX designer it gave me some trouble at first, but now I’ve genuinely come to appreciate it. There’s no way the interface could be ‘improved’ by conventional standards of aesthetics or usability without losing the thing that makes it special in the first place.
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#20Essential OSS for me, I wish the new update can be more user friendly though, something like "downloading at the backend and prompt you to update when you feel like it"