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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Likewise - my Related column is normally off the right edge of the book list - I hit End key and back arrow twice to get to it - being keyboard centric and mouse averse helps  |
Oh, so I'm one of those people who have really few columns on display. It took me three years or so to discover (or maybe re-discover, as I suppose I did know about it at some point at the beginning
) the possibility to edit columns in the table view
(as I would routinely use the Edit Metadata dialog). Now I do use table view for some editing work but I still keep many columns hidden most of the time (while using the View Manager to define views used in specific situations/for specific tasks).
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QV might have wider 'usage' if there was a Quickview Tool (plug in perhaps ?) that presents a list of columns that are Quickview-able (i.e. not numbers, dates or composites - I think) and their current book values. Most people prefer mouse clicking on iconic things rather than pressing keys or using right click context menu's.
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I switched from being relatively keyboard-centric to mouse-centric some years ago, and I navigate in Calibre with mouse mostly. I wish Quickview was available from the context menu, without the need to press any key (or is it available some other way than by pressing 'Q'? I've got no idea.)
The other thing is that Quickview doesn't seem very configurable. I rarely care about series, so I'd prefer to have another column/columns shown in the Quickview window.
Same goes to the 'Similar books' option available from the context menu. It allows to search for books with the same author/series/publisher/tags but it's of limited use to me as it doesn't include my custom columns 'genre' and 'topic', which are certainly use much more often than those in my searches. It would be nice to have some configuration possibilities here (or are they hidden somewhere, and I just haven't found them?).
If I want to find similar books, I use the book details panel in most cases, just clicking on a given category. Now that I'm thinking about it, it would be nice to have Quickview options added there (for example to the right-click menu of those categories that offer Quickview).
It's fascinating to see how different people use same (or different) features of the same piece of software, depending on what needs and preferences they have
