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Originally Posted by UXstudent
This could be interpreted as Calibre having a transient posture as we UX people calls it. It's when a program is used as a tool, that is briefly taken out of your toolbox to complete a small task and quickly move on.
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If you read ebooks, novels in epub, kindle, sony or Palm formats, then it is really a transient tool.
I might use the web browser, text chat/VOIP/Video chat or word processor for hours every day. I might go weeks without even opening Calibre and then it's only because I've bought an ebook or found a new bunch of Public Domain ebooks (here, Gutenberg but not Archive dot org – Wayback Machine – unless I'm desperate for a particular really PD title and prepared to read a scan to PDF. Their ebooks are not usually proofed, poor OCR of PDF and they also pirate content. Downloaded too much mobi/epub garbage from Archive dot org).
If you are only using a physical library to read novels (printed or ebook), then it too is a kind of transient tool, as is Kindle Store on Amazon or Smashwords.com or Google Playstore for books.
Comics or graphic novels do come in electronic format and can be managed by Calibre. Most don't take as long to consume.
I only use Calibre's viewer to preview ebooks I'm producing. It might take 2 weeks to a year to write a 1st draft of a novel. It takes minutes to make the docx into an epub2 ebook to proof read and annotate on an eink based ereader. Minutes to read all the annotations in Calibre and copy paste into KATE, a multitab text editor and then half a day to two weeks to edit the source novel in LO Writer, depending on how many annotations there are and revision level of the book.
But I spend most time using Calibre to import, clean and transfer old public domain novels rather than our own books.
I spend about x20 more time ordinary reading than actual proof reading