Kovid, long time user of Calibre (since 2010) and lurker of the forum, keep up the great work! I have over 400gb of non-fiction books, articles, academic papers, and documentaries I am slowly getting into Calibre with accurate metadata (its a long process and had to start over, but will be well worth it). I look forward to the updates each Friday in anticipation of what has been further developed.
I have a couple feature/plugin requests:
1. Integration or able to link libraries/books into mind mapping software such as
The Brain or
Docear which are free and the latter open source. This would be great in large libraries where users want to find and view ideas and links between books, documents, authors, etc. It is more of a research and academic tool, and while I know Calibre is not designed for that use in mind, it has great potential and beats many of the paid for software on the market for those purposes if used correctly (e.g. management of documents in natural and citations are just as easy with user columns).
2. Is it possible to utilize or integrate Calibre with
PDF-Xchange Editor for the editing and manipulation of .pdf's or is there a copryight issue? Or perhaps they wouldn't mind being used in this light with permission for marketing purposes? This is not a big issue as I can just use the program itself, but it would be nice to be able to do it in one place.
3. Is it possible to implement of scrolling ticker integrated into News that updates as items are downloaded. Users could choose colors and notifications (e.g. red=new item, yellow=recent, green=older, popup notification, etc). Please see pic attached for further clarification. It is a screenshot of my native system (Win 7) with Calibre open and a separate program,
Desktop Ticker, used to scroll RSS feeds.
Again, thank you for all your hard work and effort, everyone hear appreciates it much. I enjoy everybody's participation as well, such a great project.