Thread: Pros & Cons of using the Calibre GUI
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Old 08-07-2018, 12:36 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by sealbeater View Post
What I do is my business and I'll thank you to let me be the one to mind it. However, I prefer to have a screen full of text when I'm doing stuff rather than a big window full of book covers. To me, being able to manage and sort and preprocess and do all my other magic without needing a gui is of far more value to me than Calibre could ever be.
And strangely enough, I do have a screen full of text when doing stuff in calibre. There's this big list of the books that occupies 80% of the calibre window. And the rest is nice and convenient for me to click on.

And I know your response will be you use 100% of the window. But, if I was doing this one a command line, I'd be using two windows next to each other. One would be where I listed the books, the other where I showed more details of one book, or edit it or something else like that. I could do it all in one command window, but that means a lot of scrolling and repeating the same command to redisplay the list I'm working with. Which is exactly what I am doing now to look at problems on various servers I am working with.
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