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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
Don't know if it would help but you can open the same book multiple times in different viewer sessions.
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I mean, I guess that would technically work, and it might even be preferable depending on exactly what someone's doing, but it seems a bit cumbersome if you're just looking to quickly reference different parts of the book. I could see it being more ideal if say you wanted to have a glossary open in one instance for easy reference while just reading the book in the other instance.
Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm not sure that's the method I'd want to use under normal circumstances, but I'll try to remember it down the road for situations like the example I gave.
Regardless I can't see myself switching to the new viewer unless an option is added enable/disable the old sidebar and header. The new menu really does hurt my eyes and makes it more difficult for me to find the settings I'm looking for, which just isn't a good tradeoff for the viewer being "less cluttered" when I never found it to be cluttered to begin with, or gaining the perk of calculating how long it will take to finish the chapter/book, which is nice but not a necessity.
I was very surprised to hear that there are a bunch of people that found it to be cluttered. I always felt it was a very simplistic clean viewer. I could understand people saying that if they were trying to read within the main Calibre program itself, especially with the way mine is set up, but the viewer itself felt like it was a very minimalistic display. I guess I'll just keep using the old viewer until such time the new viewer changes into something I can live with and hopefully I won't run into any compatibility issues with newer ebooks down the road.