06-04-2008, 09:38 AM | #16 |
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Reading this thread I realize that there is not much - there are not many things - that I would want calibre to do that it is already not doing well. Thank you Kovid!
In fact, will calibre continue to grow until it does so much that it loses the functionality that it now has? I hope not. Oh yes, one little item that I would like to see. When you Save to Disk I would like to see calibre open the menu dialog to the same place (folder) that you saved to previously. |
06-04-2008, 10:22 AM | #17 |
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Three, if you include Amazon's (private) Kindle DRM server, but yes, I know. Still, all those stores would presumably need to install new software. It's not a trivial task. And what about all the older devices which have versions of the Mobi reader available? I doubt anyone' going to write "Digital Editions" eBook views for o/s's like old versions of PalmOS or Windows CE. Mobi's not going anywhere in a hurry!
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06-04-2008, 10:52 AM | #18 | |
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Note that Kovid's Mac is old and slow (partly because the donor was willing to give it up, and partly to encourage development choices that run well on old slow machines like what most of us have ) With only about 700 books in my library, calibre runs nice and quickly once it's opened. It's pretty slow to start up, though. Xenophon |
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06-04-2008, 11:27 AM | #19 |
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I'll add my vote for a convert to MOBI option. Inferior or not, it's not going away. However, were it a choice between that and epub, I vote for epub.
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06-04-2008, 12:39 PM | #21 |
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LRF2LRF
I'm real happy with the tool and can only think of one feature I would like to see.
And LRF2LRFconverter. Most LRF I have came across have the fonts too large and the borders too thick. (except for the SONY Store LRX) I find it kind of ironic that I have to choose Mobi/ePub/LIT over LRF so that I may get the format I like. I've trolled some of the other threads and know I'm not alone here =X= |
06-04-2008, 01:22 PM | #22 |
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@HarryT: I agree that MOBI as a platform for delivering content isn't going away anytime soon, but that's not the point. calibre already converts *from* MOBI, just not *to* MOBI. My point is that in the very near future most devices that read MOBI will also read epub, which means that converting to MOBI will be pointless, since you'd get a nicer ebook converting to EPUB.
@wallcraft: You could always vote for me to write an epub viewer Certainly creating a HTML wrapper around an exploded epub should be easy. |
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06-04-2008, 01:42 PM | #24 |
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Since mobipocket is about to release a version of mobigen for linux, writing html2mobi should become pretty easy as well.
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06-05-2008, 01:57 PM | #26 |
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Well, I've already ponied up (I sent cash directly to Kovid's snail mailbox, rather than giving eBay a cut), but I would happily pay more for one thing that is near and dear to this Mac-user's heart: Drag-and-drop support. Not just for adding books to the Library, but also for adding artwork to a book.
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06-05-2008, 03:00 PM | #27 |
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You can already drag and drop cover images to onto the cover display in the edit metadata dialog
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(I should also note that I'm still using one of the last versions of libprs500. If this has already been fixed in calibre, I apologize). |
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06-06-2008, 01:01 PM | #30 |
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the windows resizing issue will be fixed in the next release.
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