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Originally Posted by catbehemoth
And by giving people option to manage libraries the way the want will only benefit/advance Calibre. We are talking about an additional feature not a replacement for existing system, and this may convince some people stay with Calibre (Myself i stick to Calibre - it's still the best piece of software i found for book management, but that's not the point).
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The problem is, implementing such a feature will take time and effort. I don't know how much time and effort, but I suspect it wouldn't be trivial. The Calibre developers only have a finite amount of time and effort to spend, and so they have to prioritise. As I understand it, right now, this feature is a very low priority.
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Originally Posted by catbehemoth
This is how i understand open software - freedom of choice for users.
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In so far as the source code is available, and can be modified, yes, there is absolute freedom of choice. You can change the code to do anything you like. Or pay someone to do so.
Open source does not, however, mean that the software will do anything you like out of the box. Firefox will not store my bookmarks in a MySQL database. Because the source is available, I could modify the code to make it do so. Same with Calibre - it won't do what you want out of the box, but you could modify the source to make it to do so.