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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
the e-reader software from Calibre is not really touch friendly (but it works)
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Do you recall any particular changes you made to make it more friendly? I seem to remember being able to change icon sizes in Calibre itself but not the eReader?
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Oh, thank you for that link to that Minimalist Windows App for Calibre! I'll look at that this weekend
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It (CalibreViewer) is pretty cool, but the author (Marty_B) hasn't signed on here since Halloween I believe
so his real life and/or day job may have severely limited our chances of enhancements... Note also that CalibreViewer depends on an external ereader app, so you're still stuck with the "copies book to its own local storage before reading" behavior. I also noted that Book Bazaar at least doesn't work "well" with CalibreViewer because it stays on the last read book - so if you open book A and don't close it within BB, even when you launch book B you'll be back at book A. BB will in fact copy book B and ready it for reading but you won't know that. Freda works more the way I would expect - opening the book it was launched with. You are stuck with duplicate books though as both apps copy into local storage
It would be awesome if Marty continues to make improvements to CalibreViewer, and perhaps a partnership of some kind with the Freda guy would be ideal.... since CV has the underlying Calibre database and on-disk data structure knowledge, and Freda appears to be a good eReader app.
Richard