[BTW, the OP hasn't been around in three weeks; I think he's/she's been pretty much scared away. Perhaps it's also time to bury this thread.]
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
The OP wanted something "paid" because he believed that something done for money is inherently better than something done for love. (his, er, private life has got to be ... interesting)
That's what got so many calibre fans steamed:
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I'm of two minds on this. I certainly understand, and to some degree sympathize with, those who would find such a question in a Calibre forum inappropriate. But I think there's been a lot of knee jerk overreaction as well. (And, sorry, Worldwalker; I have very much enjoyed our exchanges; but in this case I think dragging the OP's personal life into this is at least as inappropriate as the OP, and not very civil.)
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
this guy coming in here and saying, in effect, that calibre must be trash because it's free
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I didn't get that he was trashing Calibre at all. Quite the opposite. My reading was that he was genuinely impressed with Calibre, but just found the interface a bit unsatisfactory.
But then I do tend to be a "benefit of the doubt" kind of guy.
In the interest of full disclosure, I am not a long-time Calibre user, having just picked it up about a month ago. I did make a small donation a couple of weeks ago, because I'm finding it useful at the moment, but I may or may not continue using it. This is no fault of Calibre's; I just tend to have pretty simple ebook management needs -- I store all my ebooks in folders alphabetically by author, and can drag-n-drop them to my ereader manually as easily as using Calibre. All the metadata and tagging stuff is nice at times, but only mildly interesting to me. Being that my ebook collection is
my ebook collection, I'm already pretty familiar with its contents and where things are, and don't need a lot of tags or metadata to help me find what I'm looking for, so I haven't decided whether the (to me, rather minor) advantages metadata and tagging offers is worth giving up control of my folder structure. Especially since it means having to fire up Calibre just to find a book.
The one Calibre feature that I've really come to appreciate is the conversion. It's really nice to be able to convert nearly anything to ePub (a format of which I'm becoming increasingly enamored) almost automatically.
That being said, I'm also a bit sympathic to the OP's feelings viz. the Calibre UI. I'm not overly fond of the UI myself. But then I've never been a fan of the whole iTunes look-and-feel, which Calibre largely takes after. So again, not necessarily Calibre's fault.