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Old 12-07-2008, 09:38 PM   #1135
Xenophon
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Originally Posted by FizzyWater View Post
Your Mom? Really? Mom good at computers?

I really like Calibre, but there's still a lot that needs to be done to it before it's "average-Mom" ready. There still are too many functions (for a typical Windows user, anyway) that can only be fully realized using command line...uh...commands. (There has to be a better way to say that).

Wonder if anyone would be willing to write a tutorial for "How to use command line instructions in Calibre"?
I certainly wouldn't expect her to use the command line tools from Calibre. Never, ever, no way, uh uh. But most of the point-n-clicky stuff would be well within her grasp -- if there was a manual that she could read to get started.

She's not super-good at computers. But she's been a Mac user since about 1990, so she's got many basics down pretty well.

Xenophon

P.S. Please note that I'm not complaining about lack of a manual. I fully understand that it's open-source, community effort stuff. B*tching about a manual should properly be met with the response "so write one!" And I don't have time: 3 papers and a book to write in the next way-too-short time period.
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