[robojerk]

Is there a way to remove the toolbar, and keep clickable access to the preferences? Is there a plugin to add the preferences to the bottom of the window, where the column buttons are?

I love Calibre, but I ask because the UI is full of redundancies, and a lot of options wouldn't normally use for just ebook reading. Also why have buttons on top and contextual menus for the same things?

If you remove the toolbar, "Tag browser" column, and enable the cover flow, the main window for the program would look a lot prettier. The "Ebook Viewer" window could also benefit from some UI clean up as well.

I think Calibre is great for power users that need to do a lot of tweaks to ebooks, but for those looking for just a ebook reading app it seems overwhelming, and it's interface can make people not want to use it.