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Originally Posted by pilotbob
OK,
Installed on my Mac (10.5.4).
First, it asked me where to put the files. I created a folder in my home directory named calibre. It is putting the files there, but it put the db folder in my home directory.
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That is an artifact of the upgrade proces, library1.db can be deleted once the books are all migrated.
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Second, is there a way to import a "save-to-disk" folder for a previous version?
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Click the arrow next to the add books button.
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Third... there is a setting about what version to do a "single file save" with. I choose mobi. However, the save to disk drop down still says "save only LRF to disk"... I was assuming this would change to say "save only mobi to disk".
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needs a restart to change
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When I first ran the app the grid was compressed. The columns were not very wide. When I expand the full window the grid columns don't get wider either. When I sorted on the Title the columns seemed to adjust based on the data... I kind of expected to get that right up front.
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This is also an artifact of the upgrade process. On future restarts, it will remember your preferred column widths. It does not adjust widths on window resize as typically, there is too much data to fit into the window any way, so it allows the user to specify their preferred column widths.
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I "added" a bunch of books. Mostly the free TOR books from the giveaway. Many of them show the author name in the title column. Is this bad metadata in the book file or a bug, I'm not sure.
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When books dont have metadata it falls back to guessing from the filename. Sometimes it gets it wrong.
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Browse books by covers... the image does not expand the full width of the coverflow area when I have the window wide.
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Expanding would not make much sense, since to preserve aspect ration the height would also have to increase and there isn't enough space
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A suggestion on the icons... Put the two in the bottom right corner up in the top tool bar. Get rid of the bottom left area and add a view where the cover shows as the first column of the grid. So, you could have three grid view modes, list, list w/ covers (maybe call this bookshelf) and coverflow. This is sort of how mac finder has 4 views.
Can the coverflow view have a scroll bar like the mac coverflow view does in finder.
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Having a bookshel browsing mode is a possibility, but it's way down on my priority list
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Another question... I don't see a way to organize the list of books in a folder type view... I thought you said in a previous message that this already existed... maybe you misunderstood me or I you. Can you point me on doc on how to organize the books in the GUI?
Ok... some are bugs, some suggestions, some questions... hope this helps.
BOb
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calibre uses a tags system. The tags are not hierarchical. If you add tags to books and them enter the tags in the search bar the view is automatically filtered to only include books with those tags. if you think about it this is far superior to having hierarchical tags (i.e. folders).