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Originally Posted by avid01
Thank you. This was half helpful. First, the 'ebook-viewer.exe' only works when in it's appropriate subfolder (when using Calibre Portable), it does not integrate well with the PortableApps platform. Second, there are many icons on the side, hovering on them doesn't tell me what they do.
But anyways, keep it up!
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@avid01
If I open an epub it opens it with the ebook-viewer.exe program file with which I have associated the epub extension. I probably achieved that via the Open With context menu item in Windows Explorer. The file can be on my desktop, in my downloads folder, in my calibre library folder, on a network drive, on a flash stick - in other words anywhere.
Same deal with the calibre ebook-reader on my Mint netbook.
Are you sure the Reader has mouse focus when you hover on the buttons, the tooltips only work if the control (button) you're hovering over is owned by the window that has focus - pretty sure that's true for all Windows programs. They take 1-2 seconds to appear. There maybe a way to disable/enable them in Preferences, I couldn't see - it but I often don't see things.
Re frequency of updates - I like things just the way they are, i.e. weekly updates. A benefit is that I get 1-7 day delivery of the change requests I lodge in Calibre Bugs, 24 hours if I want to apply the patch myself. On one occasion there was an 'in between' version posted within a couple of hours of me reporting a defect; I would have been happy to wait a week, but Kovid obviously thought it too important to wait that long.
There are defects in some products that take months (years) to get fixed. By which time the average Joe would have devised a workaround, so if/when the defect is fixed it is often ignored by the people who have established there own workarounds.
The notion that the update frequency of a
multiple platform product like Calibre should to be determined by the restrictive practices of a 3rd party
one platform application like Portable Apps is, in my opinion, absurd. One of the reasons Calibre needs frequent updates is because it targets the most diverse and fastest moving segment of the ITT sector - e-book readers, smart phones and tablets.
BR