Thanks for reply, er, so is there a way to create books from a list?
As to your opinion, sure its valid but only generally.
You make it sound like I'm a little girl jumpin up and down over some new app I have managed to install on my parents desktop,
That's not really the case, I'm an IT Professional and work as a Consultant
I'm just trying to extend the usefulness of this program.
For my personal use, being able to have a separate library where I have a list of programs (that I use and update for IT Support etc) is going to be more useful than having it in the excel file it is in presently,it will be easier to sort through / display better.
Yes I could get a specific application for each use case, but there is no way I would, unless for instance I have a lot of items to index.
I imagine calibre is a database with a frontend in its simplest form,
Maybe calibre can be made to have a main.exe with sub modules for different use cases, the idea is not beyond the realms of possibility
As I said for storing "My Apps", it already does
95% of what it needs to, I would pull up an image to show you, but am re-installing at present.
It lists all my Apps, when they were updated, links to the website, has columns for many useful things, 32/64bit, portable, price, usage, etc.
So saying its a bad idea is misguided as it's an excellent idea for my use case.
For Home inventory for example, You could use a receipt for the "book" and apart from changing a few titles you would be good to go. For more in-depth use you would need some way to total columns - which is why I suggested a plugin might serve.
Yes for images, Adobe bridge etc is pretty good, I use it often, and there are a sextillion others, but I was thinking of the cover browser function specifically.
Say you had a few images of your family that you wanted to store, have indexed and then display nicely in a full screen view (I know the cover browser at present does not respect the original dimensions/aspect ratio)
There are many applicaitons out there, as you say well most of them are bloated poorly coded, proporiaty lumps of uselessness.
Why use several programs when one would be sufficient - I spend my time convincing people to Not install yet another program.
You say jack of all trades - That's is precisely why I said a plugin, so as not to even change Calibre in anyway for the majority, Maybe in the future some kind of module that's more closely integrated would be needed or more useful.
There are many ways the Calibre can grow going forward and I don't think you should be so dismissive with your "is not and will never be" attitude
