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Originally Posted by nickredding
Exactly, and I am saying it could be useful to a much larger audience ("the 80%") who don't fit your description of the target audience.No, I understand exactly what you are saying and so does everyone else reading this thread.
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And I am saying that it will never be of use to people that do not need to maintain a large collection of books. If you read a handful of books a year, which you dont intend to re-read anyway, why bother with maintaining a book collection? You need to step back and think about calibre's value proposition. Why should someone want to use calibre? What do they get out of it? Is making calibre simpler going to harm the interests of the people that actually have a solid reason to use calibre? IMO trying to simplify the "send book to device" use case further will actually be counter productive to calibre's adoption, by the people that actually have good reason to use it.
I am firmly of the opinion that human beings are intelligent. As long as a complex system is presented clearly, with sensible defaults, in a consistent manner, they can learn how to use it. You may well believe otherwise, but I have to say that my experience with calibre has re-inforced my view. I realize this flies in the face of blogger "wisdom" about people, but I choose to believe the evidence of my eyes and my mind, rather than currently held "opinion".
@fesja: All of chaley's additions have complicated only one part of calibre, the preferences, a part that, as per your philosophy, should not even exist. So people like you are free to ignore its existence. Simply pretend that calibre has no preferences button, rather like an app designed by someone at 37signals
And if you, and the author of the book you quote, really believe that software must never have any advanced functions, because they scare off people, I am afraid we are never going to see eye-to-eye.
@saxondawg: Thanks, it is good to hear from someone that uses only the basic use case of calibre. As I have been saying all along, calibre is actually very simple to use, for that basic use case. It gets complicated when you ask it to do complicated things. Dont try and you will never see any of that complexity.
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EDIT: I can tell from your tone that you are offended by my commments and that was not my intent.
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I was offended, but that is in the past
