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i will have to take a closer look at calibre. so far i have not because my original impression was that it was specifically for making sony books, and i don't have a sony. i realised quickly that it had other features as well but i'm now discovering it has far wider applications than i ever suspected. also i've heard talk of integrating .imp support along with the other filetypes it already supports ; it could end up being just what i need.
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That's a pretty good reason not to use Calibre right there
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Again, this thread is about an indexing tool that will allow me to look at and examine my collection of books, virtual or otherwise, and to organise and interrogate that collection in a multitude of ways. Let's please try to stay on-track with that concept. |
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This was an attempt to get you to do the sensible thing and not re-invent the wheel. Since you seem to want to re-invent the wheel, best of luck.
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But if the database backend of Calibre does most of what you want, writing a new front end might still be a viable option to get the tool you are looking for, don't you think?
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09-08-2008, 11:01 AM | #36 |
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Nekokami, I would have thought that was exactly the case, until Kovid said that he wasn't an SQL guru (therefore the database backend isn't going to be very well optimised), and various issues with Calibre have been mentioned; it seems to me that the database backend isn't going to do what I want.
Besides which, I *am* an SQL guru, as well as a guru of many other disciplines, so I'm pretty certain there won't be much standing in my way. |
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not to mention the fact that our new SQL guru needs a new project to keep him busy.
god knows we wouldn't want him to have too much free time on his hands ; who knows what kind of trouble he could get into. |
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Well, exactly. If it wasn't for this, I'd have to resume my hobby of deciding the basis upon which I should choose victims...
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Some competition can be nice.
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I have a really simple premise here: I just want a tool to index things for me. I don't want it to convert stuff. I don't want it to corrupt my device. I don't want it to look like a blind three-year-old wrote the GUI, and I don't want it to perform like a mangy dog when it gets just 10k entries. Honestly, if you can't do better than that, you should quit and go and become a bricklayer. |
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I thoroughly disapprove of people choosing to work with tools they are familiar with just for that reason alone; tools should be chosen because they are appropriate to the task at hand. Obviously, if multi-platform is an issue, then Java is a big candidate, but I really dislike Java's UI abilities. |
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