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Originally Posted by bhagerty
@BetterRed:
(1) Sarcasm is unfriendly. And in this case, totally uncalled for. I asked a good-faith question, followed some advice, thanked folks for their advice, and followed up with a good-faith suggestion.
(2) On top of which, it seems that you are being willfully obtuse, just to create an occasion for your sarcasm. I'm glad there's a command-line option for listing categories, and I appreciate your pointing it out. But it's quite obvious that I was talking about having an option to create a list of tags from within Calibre's GUI. (Indeed, I almost wrote "from within Calibre's GUI" in place of "in Calibre itself" in my last post, but I thought, "No need for that; surely it's obvious what I'm talking about.") Command-line tools are not perfect substitutes for GUI implementations, even if some folks (you—and, in fact, me) are comfortable with command-line tools.
So I will clarify my suggestion and stand by it: It would be nice if, within Calibre's GUI, there were a simple means to export a list of tags.
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Your original request had merit.
Calibre often has many ways to get from point B to point L
Your original request has ultra low (known to these forum) usage.
Adding low usage Bloat to an already Overly Rich GUI does not. There are multi-millions of Calibre installations.
The CLI is not that difficult when you need to do an odd job (There are folk here that do REGULAR Calibre jobs with the CLI. I assume
that their rigs are headless) The
online Help documents almost all the possible commands.
BTW Just because you read the list today... We were poking fun at each other because
we did not keep current. Calibre has grown (features) a Huge amount in the 5 years I have been using it. Do not be surprised that we don't use all of the Calibre power available.