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Originally Posted by travger
@kiwidude - I must disagree, I remember being very interested in 'why'. Especially new user needs to know why somebody does things, in my opinion it makes a lot easier to decide 'no, not for me, don't need to know how'.
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My understanding of what unboggling was trying to put together was a simple guide for new users to help point them in the right direction in a few areas. My first impression when I saw the latest post and I expanded some of the spoilers was "crikey, that is a lot of text" and that makes it look very complicated. Which imho is in contrast to the concept of trying to make this a simple recommendation.
If I take the case of my parents as an example Calibre user, they really don't care about the intimate details of a "why" for most things - they would just want to know a "what" that is built from the experiences of other users to save them the hours of figuring it out for themselves.
However I completely understand (as I am the same) that there are users like yourself who want to know the "why" for a recommendation so they can choose to use it or not, particularly when there are alternatives. I think it is valid to have the information available, I just suggest it is pretty verbose burying the "what" in amongst the "why".
Perhaps an alternative approach would be to have the "Why" within the spoilers - so people can see at a glance the recommendations, and if they are curious they can drill into the detail.