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Originally Posted by adrianf
Thank you @tonywakins for adding your voice to this. Probably the intersction of enthusiastic PC programmers and academics is not huge. @BetterRed said:
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 necessarily 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.
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Firstly my post was a response to DNSB's post not yours.
It was not clear to me that you wanted a link to the content of books. I have no idea what Hook does, nor is it immediately obvious from its webpage that that is what it does. Referencing a little known, and IMO a poorly documented, product is not very effective way of defining a software requirement.
I doubt 5% of calibre users are PC aficionados, I certainly wouldn't call myself that. Have you thought about employing a software developer to build a bespoke version of calibre - its licensing would allow that.
BTW Kovid wrote 'calibre is the leader in its
field' - which is
ebook library management. He did not claim it is the
'most used e-reader application'.
BR