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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Instead, he said he didn't like Calibre because it didn't work like he wanted it to work, and that it didn't do what he wanted it to do. He aspires to replace Calibre with his own product.
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It doesn't work how he wants it to and it doesn't do what he wants it to do. That doesn't mean everything calibre does is not suitable. For example, the conversion routines work well enough for what he wants to do at the moment that he can reuse it. Whilst the rest of the backend such as the DB side and taking control of your folder structure is something that doesn't work how he'd like.
That doesn't mean calibre is bad, wrong or anything else, just that it's not quite how this person wants it to work. Instead of whining about it though, he's doing something about it which imo makes a change.
Reusing calibre to do conversion seems like a sane decision too. Why replace everything when some parts do work in a way that fits in with your new project and work well enough not to need replacing immediatly? I'm sure if other parts could have been easily reused, worked in a way he wanted and license terms were suitable, he'd have reused those too.
Nothing imo wrong with that at all.
Regarding how calibre looks, it's not the best, but then again I spend so little time within it that as long as it's functional, usable and stable, looks really aren't high on the priority list.