Thread: 4.0 version Calibre update? Terrible
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Old 11-28-2019, 12:56 PM   #42
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Originally Posted by Arro View Post
Hi all!

Lots of chatter about the new ebook-reader...

After updating to Calibre 4.4.0 and deciding I really preferred the "old" ebook-viewer, I downloaded a pre-4.0 tarball [calibre release (3.48.0), 64-bit binary] and extracted the ebook-viewer, copied it to /opt/calibre/ and /opt/calibre/bin/ and set the owner and permissions.

For some reason, it just does not work - I can't even run the viewer (it's set to executable) and I am running x86_64 Ubuntu.

Anyone else tried this and had the same or similar problem?

I'll post if I get it to work, but I'm baffled for the moment.
What is it about the eBook viewer in 4.4 that you do not like? Doing what you did will never work. The viewer in 4.4 now allows you to have a toolbar like the pre-4 viewer and it's been made faster to load eBooks. I see no reason at all to go with the older viewer.
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