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Originally Posted by robojerk
Is there a way to remove the toolbar, and keep clickable access to the preferences?
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You can remove the icons under Preferences - Look and Feel. You can choose what is displayed for each toolbar via Preferences -Toolbars.
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Originally Posted by robojerk
Is there a plugin to add the preferences to the bottom of the window, where the column buttons are?
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No.
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Originally Posted by robojerk
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?
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Calibre's primary function is ebook management. There is no reason context menus should revolve, as you seem to suggest, around ebook reading. That said, all of the context menus and toolbars are completely customizable under Preferences - Toolbars.
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Originally Posted by robojerk
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.
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You can remove the tag browser, integrated cover browser or book details simply by clicking on the associated icon located at the bottom right of calibre.
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Originally Posted by robojerk
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.
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If you are looking for "just a ebook reading app" then you might want to look elswhere, say the ePub extension for Firefox. Calibre is an eBook management suite and as such is much more complicated than a simple reader program.