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Originally Posted by BeeTee-Ess
OT I know, but I have to ask...
What's not to like about Calibre?
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Keeping in mind I might not be up to date...
- don't like the way it stores books on disk (ie: the directory names with parenthesized numbers can potentially conflict with Dropbox versioning, pulling covers out of books, zipping HTML etc)
- don't like the way it looks, especially the icons
- UI doesn't feel polished. Feels like it takes many button presses to do common things. It also feels sluggish and not snappy to me, even on fast hardware.
- don't like the auto-generated styles when doing conversions. Also, the default formatting during conversion seemed pretty heavy-handed to me
- felt like it slowed down a lot after a few thousand books (this may have gotten better; I vaguely remember some kind of database update coming down the pike around the time I gave up on Calibre)
I understand why Calibre has fans, but between command line conversion tools, and the native tagging and metadata tools of my computer's filesystem, I don't really see much value add in Calibre for me personally. Especially since I consider my ebooks to be my "archival" copies and not just artifacts meant for display on particular hardware.