Obligatory link to the terminal emulator that Kovid also created / maintains that is super nice: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
Wait, I didn't know they where the same person. Neat.
Calibre – E-Book Management
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Re: Calibre – E-Book Management
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because it doesn't fit into the modern zeitgeist of extreme testability and pandering to computer illiterates Every time this kind of UI comes up in discussion, I feel like there is always someone groaning about how much extra effort and cost is involved with giving the user too many options. In fact, you could say that modern software seeks to eliminate all noncritical optionality. Combine this with gobs of poi…
That chip on your shoulder against everything post-2007-ish must be pretty heavy. Modern apps don't suck. Specific design patterns suck. Not all things modern adhere to those design patterns. Not all the patterns you mention suck. If I were hiring you to design an interface, your aversion to "humanize pretty much everything" would kick me right off the list. It reeks of tech-saavy elitism.
> Not all things modern adhere to those design patterns.
Could you give some examples?
Re: Calibre – E-Book Management
#83Calibre 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 st…
The UI is not the only weird part of it, probably the least weird one. What I miss are first-class attachments (i.e. code archives and CD/floppy images) support, raw file naming (without automatic romanization of non-ASCII alphabets), flat storage (without creating a separate folder for every book). Using a Calibre-managed library from outside of Calibre (i.e. on a PocketBook reader) feels quite unnatural. Another th…
If you're on linux, check out Foliate. It's everything you're asking for :D
Re: Calibre – E-Book Management
#84Re: Calibre – E-Book Management
#85Calibre 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 st…
The UI is not the only weird part of it, probably the least weird one. What I miss are first-class attachments (i.e. code archives and CD/floppy images) support, raw file naming (without automatic romanization of non-ASCII alphabets), flat storage (without creating a separate folder for every book). Using a Calibre-managed library from outside of Calibre (i.e. on a PocketBook reader) feels quite unnatural. Another th…
What's the benefit over just converting to html and using a browser? As far as I know epub is just html anyway.
Re: Calibre – E-Book Management
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
"There is probably a way to disable this" No, there is not, and never will be: https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#why-doesn-t-calibr... Calibre's library is meant to be the place where you store your books. I'm curious why you want to store a second copy outside Calibre. Is it because: 1. Calibre doesn't allow you to find books the way you want? (e.g. tagging doesn't have the all metadata you want) 2. You have…
I've already got them organized. At this point some of these PDFs and CHM and LIT files could get drafted, they're so old.
Same reason here: by the time Calibre was moderately usable, I had a thousand plus ebooks and an organizing system.
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#87I use Calibre to manage my Kindle pdfs and books. It is one of the oldest pieces of software I use, and it works really well.
Just a nit/aside: I'm sure the OS you are using has much older software built in. Iif on Windows, imagine the legacy that's stuck there for backwards compatibility. If on Linux, most of that is really old, updated recently perhaps, but created a long time ago. macOS is similar to Linux, though arguably worse as they dont update software that changed from gpl2 to gpl3, iirc. There's a lot of really old software you pr…
Does anything trump GNU Maxima at this point?
Re: Calibre – E-Book Management
#88The only thing I have against calibre is that the scroll speed on books is really fast. It's easy to flick 20 pages forward or backward on accident. Makes me miss smooth scroll on other interfaces.
Customizing it doesn't help? Right-click on the book text, select Preferences, select Scrolling Behavior
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#89My favourite eReader for android is and always will be AlReader. Some dudes pet project but it is glorious and wonderful.
Just curious, what do you like about it over other ebook readers? I've been using Moon+ heavily for years and it's fine but I'm interested in trying some others out.
Re: Calibre – E-Book Management
#90Does anyone know of any good ebook platforms that compete with Amazon? Getting really sick of the Goodreads/Amazon interfaces and lack of quality recommendations.
I’ve purchased a book from Kobo before. It used the epub DRM compatible with adobe digital editions. At the time (afaik) they didn’t have a way to load it on a kindle without breaking the drm, converting it to mobi and doing a manual transfer. These days I stick with my public library (which uses overdrive and in my opinion is fantastic) or amazon in the event they don’t own ebook licenses.