[Jacques Q.]

I'll tell you what : I get sick and tired of this tool that is basically accessible to VERY computer-literate persons.
What I want to do : create catalogues WITHOUT the "published date", that happens NEVER to be the correct published date in the first place and i should know, because books I certainly do know far better than computers).
So I look everywhere, it takes me a full 3 hours, I reach the point where I have dug out the "catalogue" in Windows, transferred it in Calibre itself, and then I open the XHTML file in order to delete "published date", and HOW THE HELL do you ever even MANAGE to delete anything out of an XHTML file ?
Any explanation you find online takes you to half a dozen more explanations, each one in semi-coded language that one cannot grasp if one hasn't been into developing software.
Mr. Goyal has done a magnificent job with Calibre, but I think that, after over 10 years, it might be time for someone to adapt it for more "basic" users and do some (to real computer lovers certainly horrible, but still) work that makes it the equivalent of a WYSIWYG software. Right now, past a certain comparatively basic point, it is a tool for people used to deal with computer machinery on a daily basis, NOT fit for anyone basically interested in e-books and how to best handle them, and I resent that very sorely.