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Originally Posted by dz1
I uncover a major flaw in your program and all you can do is hurl insults. You should be thanking me for uncovering such a major problem in your flawed program and also apologising for the damage your program has done. Instead you hurl insults like some arrogant fool.
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Excuse me, please. I saw your post before it was edited by moderators. It was you that came here hurling insults.
Calibre is used daily by millions of users. It is no exaggeration. Millions.
You probably found a bug. Perhaps an old record, from time when your Desktop was set to be your library remained somewhere.
Please check this forum. Many users come here and ask for help *politely*. Usually they get an answer in a very short time. Often Kovid himself comes with an answer. Very often there is patch (in form of new version) available next Friday.
Regarding replacement.
There isn't single program that would have the same functionality as Calibre.
Some people are using software that lets you catalogue your paper books / software / movies / whatever collection. But such software doesn't manage your books or convert them to different format, or send then to device, or download book metadata and covers from net, or download and format news, or let you query your book database, or let you export books to any directory structure based on metadata.
Some users maintain elaborate directory structure with books, like I did before I started to use Calibre.
There are some programs for converting book formats, but they usually convert only from single format to another format.
For conversion of your books you can use:
- Openoffice - there is nice plugin that lets you produce epub), it can save files as pdf.
- bookdesigner
- mobipocket designer
- various on-line conversion tools
- tool made by Amazon for producing kindle books
- nice (commercial) software called Jutoh for creating epubs
- very similar open-source epub authoring tool called Sigil
- convertlit
- lit2epub (this is what I like to use on my Linux machine)
- ghoststscript
- dozens of other programs listed in our wiki
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_conversion
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/E-book_software
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Book_authoring_software
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/More_eBook_software
Tell us what you do with Calibre, and there might be program that does what you need to do. There is no other program that could replace complete Calibre functionality.