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Originally Posted by kacir
Well, version 1.0 wasn't reached, but the developers obviously listen to users.
There is new version Release: 0.7.34 [17 Dec, 2010]
that implements quite a few of your desired improvements.
Do give it a try.
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You are right Kacir, it's a pre-1.0 release. And you are also right as there seem to be a lot of changes in the latest releases which spell out less memory leaks, faster start up times. Only that the Calibre database is mostly dismantled on my hard drive today. I moved over to GCstar which does not bend under the load on my computer while being also OSS and portable across systems. Well, that's a more experienced software which reached 1.6.1 by the time I moved over and most probably with the list of features included Calibre might be even more impressive before version 1.6.
Most probably I won't be back to Calibre as GCstar book colection database is precisely what I was asking for - no more, no less. I don't do conversion, and, as my virtual library is over 95% in PDF format conversion is not as easy as HTML->EPUB because of the way PDF stores characters and words. I would also have one filesystem structure that holds the books and nothing more as no external reading devices are going to be linked. And the backup, that's the task for a sync app.
I wish you all a great new year and many bugfixes!