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Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
Here's looking at you, Mint Menu
(not nearly as bad as Electron though)
They have also made Calibre look a little less crappy on high definition screens, and added a conversion to .docx: https://calibre-ebook.com/new-in/twelve
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If you are going to pirate the book, you might as well just go straight to something like Pirates Bay. It's much easier.
Very many books are not available on torrent sites.
I've always just used Calibre because it's a nice way for me to strip DRM and then archive my books. I've never really used it any kind of active way. Since I buy pretty much everything from Amazon, I already effectively have a content server. Does anybody have a link to an online server (with public domain books)? I'm curious to see what the presentation is like. What's the typography like? Does the screen dim after…
My response is to avoid buying ebooks from Amazon if possible. Most of my purchases are from Weightless Books [1] which sells only DRM free books and magazines. Granted, this is a limited and small market (SF related stuff) but if I have a choice of getting a book DRM free from a vendor or getting it from Amazon, I would avoid Amazon, even if its price was cheaper. [1] https://weightlessbooks.com/
Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
Much as I love pyGTK, apps written in it feel pretty chunky :/ Here's looking at you, Mint Menu (not nearly as bad as Electron though)
Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
This is what it looks like for me. http://imgur.com/a/px8zF
That said I don't want to start up a whole app just to open a book I usually just open books via a script that wraps calibredb a cli interface to calibre's ebook library. If more than one result is available in response to a query it shows them via rofi. https://davedavenport.github.io/rofi/
It also remembers the last n books that have been opened whether they have been opened in the gui, a script, or otherwise and when called without arguments it returns the list of recent reads which can be selected via rofi. Since I often return to the same several books repeatedly on multiple sessions this is a more pleasant way to access my books.
My script is a bunch of not so awsome shell script. If you want to improve something a better cli experience out of the box for calibre would be nice.
Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.
Much as I love pyGTK, apps written in it feel pretty chunky :/ Here's looking at you, Mint Menu (not nearly as bad as Electron though)
I love it in principle but, considering how small most books are relatively to storage space offered by modern devices, even mobile ones, what is the upside of storing content centrally instead of just carrying a copy with you?
Also a single central location + backup ensures that your books are unlikely to be lost.