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jhoff80 · 03-28-2009, 02:55 AM

You know, I actually used Calibre to convert a lot of things to epub, but hadn't even considered using it as an actual viewer.

You're right that except for annotations that it does everything I'd want though I'd suggest a bunch of little tweaks, like an option for thumbnail view of covers instead of the cover flow-esque mode (the thumbnail view is one of the best things about Digital Editions), and maybe being able to double click on a book title and directly open the viewer, but even still, I'm much happier with it than anything else right now.

Oh, and the option to have the viewer go into the same window as the main program would be nice too (as in, instead of making a new window, just hide the library stuff and show the viewer there), though that's not a big deal.

(As for the suggestions I have, should those be added one at a time to the tracker on the site, I'd guess, as opposed to all in one post?)

Edit: Though strangely enough, one book I just tested that was converted to epub doesn't appear to wrap the text to the next line if it doesn't fit, but it doesn't seem to happen in a few of the other similarly converted books I attempted. It's also one of the few books I have that is showing in Courier, so maybe it's an issue from during the conversion, I don't know.

And it doesn't remember that I don't want the toolbars visible when reading, but other than that, it's doing much better than anything else.

Also, adding something like "last read" to the database would be very useful, with the default of never if it hasn't been read yet.

03-28-2009, 02:55 AM	#3
jhoff80 Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: none	You know, I actually used Calibre to convert a lot of things to epub, but hadn't even considered using it as an actual viewer. You're right that except for annotations that it does everything I'd want though I'd suggest a bunch of little tweaks, like an option for thumbnail view of covers instead of the cover flow-esque mode (the thumbnail view is one of the best things about Digital Editions), and maybe being able to double click on a book title and directly open the viewer, but even still, I'm much happier with it than anything else right now. Oh, and the option to have the viewer go into the same window as the main program would be nice too (as in, instead of making a new window, just hide the library stuff and show the viewer there), though that's not a big deal. (As for the suggestions I have, should those be added one at a time to the tracker on the site, I'd guess, as opposed to all in one post?) Edit: Though strangely enough, one book I just tested that was converted to epub doesn't appear to wrap the text to the next line if it doesn't fit, but it doesn't seem to happen in a few of the other similarly converted books I attempted. It's also one of the few books I have that is showing in Courier, so maybe it's an issue from during the conversion, I don't know. And it doesn't remember that I don't want the toolbars visible when reading, but other than that, it's doing much better than anything else. Also, adding something like "last read" to the database would be very useful, with the default of never if it hasn't been read yet. Last edited by jhoff80; 03-28-2009 at 03:09 AM.