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Originally Posted by Faszfej

In the software itself it would be a great improvement if there were some numbers rolling during conversion to show progress in percentage, kind of like in AVS document converter.

You can view this by clicking "Jobs".

And when conversion is done there is no pop-up message to inform you, no options to open file location, you don't even know where the heck it put your file.

All file management is handled by calibre. Your new file will be listed as a format for the book, and there are options to save it, or open the containing folder.

You can also find all books organized into the folder you created for the library; by default this is "C:\Users\<username>\Calibre Library", and the books will be located at "author\title (calibre_id)\title - author.formatExtension".

I love the donation feature, that's the only way I actually pay for any software. If it asked me to buy after evaluation I just download a crack or serial like everyone else, but if it's free and useful then here, take my money. Just wonder who exactly gets it and what they do with it, where's that info??

Kovid Goyal gets it, it is his program. If you go to the linked PayPal page, it says so.

A menu bar on top would be useful like in most software.

What we have right now is a menu bar with pictures, are you saying you want to get rid of the pictures?

You can create a menubar by going to Preferences ==> Interface ==> Toolbar and selecting menubar from the dropdown. Every toolbar, including the menubar, is customizable -- you can choose what options to display and in what order.

The buttons are confusing and their drop-down menus overcomplicated, like under remore you have remove all, remove all except, remove files, remove covers, remove matching books from device, what's that all about? If I want to remove it from the device I'll do it without Calibre, sometimes too many features is just too many.

Clicking the remove button will perform the default action, using the dropdown is not required unless you need a more advanced option.
calibre is meant to be the ultimate ebook manager, as a result device integration is built in. It can manage your device books as well as its own. If you don't want that, you don't have to use it, but more options are always better, if they're not intrusive. And this isn't...

And where is the About button for version and everything?

Version appears at the bottom: "calibre x.xx created by Kovid Goyal"

The help button has no drop menu to contain it.

It's just a link to the online manual, there are no options...

Sometimes a whole community "contributing" to the development of a single software can get be a hindrance to achieving a clear and simple interface.

Not everyone thinks the interface has failed to be clear and simple....

In any event, the development is done entirely by Kovid Goyal, though he does accept suggestions and software patches.