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This is not dumbing down. It is about simplifying and making it more effective and streamlined for the actual people who will be needing this kind of app. I am not criticising Calibre - I want to have a better and more widely used and successful Calibre. That is why I am suggesting the 'shell' structure - a way to retain the tech community who have brought the program to where it is, while accommodating the 'masses' who need and will use Calibre if it empowers them to do so. |
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Not really. Minus DRM, everything but Amazon uses EPub, even Apple. Conversion can (and should) be provided from the source, rather than the destination, similar to how Overdrive works (do you want the book for Kindle(mobi), Epub, or PDF?).
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By the way guys - I realise I am dropping in out of the blue and appearing to be critical. That is not my intention. I have been taking part in eBook discussions elsewhere, and sometimes here, for a few years and care about this subject. I apologise if I give the impression of being a newb smartarse
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My question to this development group is therefore this ..... do you want to stay as a techy - nerdy solution only for this small community as the eBook transforms reading and replaces paper ? Or do you want to be the 'Go To' application for the world of eBook readers across the world ? Having invested so much time and effort over the last several years in this project .. I am hoping that the developer guys will chose the latter. |
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I defer to your better knowledge.
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Do you have references for this statement? Because from where I stand, I don't see any indication that the major publishers are moving towards the end of DRM.
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Personally I can manage both list and visual. But I agree that looking for a title .. sometimes the very title I am reading now .. can be much easier visually. |
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If by 'major' you mean the big 6 ... then you are right. But does everything still revolve around the big 6 ?
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I would also envisage it being used only in what I would call sub-libraries. Such as after applying a filter, such as someone who wants to see all of their titles by one author, or genre, or date added. Ultimately you answered your own question. It wouldn't work for you ... and you wouldn't make use of it. And that is absolutely fine. |
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The people who value simplicity the most will probably stick with their vendor's semi-closed garden. |
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Hmm? Yes... Just because Smashwords and Baen don't use DRM has *little* impact on the other 9(5-6-7-8)% of the ebooks sold to the general public that still use DRM.
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More on the alleged "small community."
I just googled to find rankings of software popularity. They aren't as easy to find as you might think, but three years ago Calibre was already number 18 on the list of "Most Popular Open Source Software Ever:" http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010...re-ever-2.html If you believe the above link, Calibre was, three years ago, when eBooks were a way smaller phenomenon, already more popular than any Linux distribution. I have to be a little skeptical because the link above failed to state a methodology for its ranking. However, of the millions of programs available for download, Calibre is easily more popular than 99.99 percent of them. With numbers already this high, no one really knows whether those put off by the new interface would outnumber new adapters. Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 01-17-2013 at 10:17 PM. |
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Here are some more data points about calibre's popularity:
Number of unique IP addresses that have used the calibre Fetch News feature: 13 million http://status.calibre-ebook.com/recipe_stats Current calibre-ebook.com website ranking: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/calibre-ebook.com Top 5000 of *all* websites in the US and top 7000 in the world. And this is with a website that employs no traffic generation tricks, SEO, advertising, whatever. According to google analytics, there were 2 million unique visitors to calibre-ebook.com in the last week. Of which 60% were new visitors and 40% were returning visitors. Unfortunately, I can't create a public link for this, so you will have to take my word for it. Assume that 40% returning visitors implies at least 30% active users. That would put calibre's active user number somewhere between 4 and 6 million active users (from a total of 13.7 million). I doubt very much that there are 4 *million* computer geeks/nerds in the world that are also avid e-book readers. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 01-17-2013 at 11:49 PM. |
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Wow... Apparently you heard negatives in places where none were intended. Before posting my previous message I cut out a lot of material, perhaps losing meaning in the process.
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Sorry if I seemed to push your buttons. It wasn't intentional. I was just trying to convey my opinion(s) on the subject(s). |
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