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Originally Posted by tonywatkins

I would also love to be able to use Hook with Calibre. As an academic researcher, I have entries to books in my bibliographic database, the things that I've written, material saved in Evernote, emails in my mail client, and tasks in my task manager – all of which can be connected together neatly by Hook. The bit of my web of information that doesn't fit in is Calibre, where a significant number of my books are stored. I would love to be able to use a Hook link to go straight to a text in Calibre. As it is, I need to write a note in my bibliographic database which tells me that the book in Calibre, which I then need to open and search in to get to it.

Thank you @tonywakins for adding your voice to this. Probably the intersction of enthusiastic PC programmers and academics is not huge. @BetterRed said:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

One at least - and he doesn't want to do it via the http: protocol. He imagines doing it via a calibre: protocol, perhaps into a calibrespy like UI, or into calibrespy itself.

Added: But that would not need anything like Hook, the calibre: protocol handler and a Copy Book Link tool should be enough

BR

Probably it should be clarified, that what we ideally want is, to be be able to highlight any piece of text inside a Calibre book, and link precisely that text snippet to other whole documents or document parts, in various formats, dealt with in other applications. I do not hold my breath that our requirement will be met with less arrogance and more understanding. Still most people who read books are not necesarily PC aficionados, so there is some reasonable argument for Calibre insiders to consider more seriously our wishes. Also medical doctors do not treat as patients only other medical doctors.