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Originally Posted by Leep
Since the tool bar is customizable, I am not sure I see a need to 'simplify' the Calibre user interface.
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I agree with this sentiment. The UI is infinitely complex and utterly simple. The basics stare you in the face when first installed, Add books, edit metadata and upon connection of a ereader the Send to device icon. Yet you can customize the UI to meet your requirements. You can see from my attachment what functions I use relatively regularly by looking at my toolbar and context menu. I follow Chaley for the most part, except I manage my tags through the customizable tag mapping found in the Goodreads Metadata plugin.
The only thing not showing that I use often is the tag browser. I start up calibre without the tag browser but when needed I click the icon down the bottom right to show the tag browser.
I suppose it would be feasible to have Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced menus as preset baselines and allow users to modify the UI from there, but breaking down the info and setting those menus would be quite a feat.
As Kovid states the offerings from Amazon, Sony and Apple limit flexibility and features, as such they can provide a very basic simple UI.
Good Luck in compiling the data required to move this project/concept forward.