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Quoth · 03-07-2021, 11:51 AM

I never use tag browser, just part of title. I've about 2,400 titles in Calibre. Tags are often inconsistent. I only worry about tags / categories on books I'm publishing, not in Calibre. I do use Collections and only have books in one collection (custom column) and a custom owner column, (person bought it, PD, Promo, one we sell etc) and sort by those. Sometimes sort by format.
I've been working with physical media editing and computer files for over 40 years. Almost everyone uses Format shifted and Converted as synonyms.

Unless I was to delete all the imported tags and to assign my own, they are nearly useless. Also only the ancient Sony PRS-350 I have uses tags. Collections only work properly with my oldest Kindle or any Kobo. They don't work in any App, nor usably in KOreader on Android.
I export/copy organised by directory named after author as LN_FN. One ereader I have can only sort by the author directory name.

Really if you can change what package you are doing for your dissertation, do. Calibre is a terrible choice and any conclusions are going to be dubious due to sample size and the diverse use and the niche application.

Explaining why Android and Win 10 are both worse UX and GUI than Win9x, NT 4.0, Win 2K, XP and Server 2003 and Mac OS 9 would be more use and more achievable.

I spent 10 years doing databases, document management systems and more years programming and I fail to see how you can achieve anything useful using Calibre as target, especially with the user base.

Or contrast the stupidity of Office 2007 with Office 2003 and why hiding less used menu items is the biggest stupidity ever.

Or why though a tile based touch GUI is excellent for small screen information consumption it's almost useless for Content creation.
Or why Android TV is so much a worse GUI & UX than ordinary Android and the interfaces used by Sony or Sky before it.

Calibre is a very niche program to manage ebooks for ereaders, though people do manage to use it for ereading apps and also for other content. I've mentored students doing FYP, Masters and one doing a PhD and I can't see where you can be going with this as a UX study.

03-07-2021, 11:51 AM	#58
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,421 Karma: 107078855 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I never use tag browser, just part of title. I've about 2,400 titles in Calibre. Tags are often inconsistent. I only worry about tags / categories on books I'm publishing, not in Calibre. I do use Collections and only have books in one collection (custom column) and a custom owner column, (person bought it, PD, Promo, one we sell etc) and sort by those. Sometimes sort by format. I've been working with physical media editing and computer files for over 40 years. Almost everyone uses Format shifted and Converted as synonyms. Unless I was to delete all the imported tags and to assign my own, they are nearly useless. Also only the ancient Sony PRS-350 I have uses tags. Collections only work properly with my oldest Kindle or any Kobo. They don't work in any App, nor usably in KOreader on Android. I export/copy organised by directory named after author as LN_FN. One ereader I have can only sort by the author directory name. Really if you can change what package you are doing for your dissertation, do. Calibre is a terrible choice and any conclusions are going to be dubious due to sample size and the diverse use and the niche application. Explaining why Android and Win 10 are both worse UX and GUI than Win9x, NT 4.0, Win 2K, XP and Server 2003 and Mac OS 9 would be more use and more achievable. I spent 10 years doing databases, document management systems and more years programming and I fail to see how you can achieve anything useful using Calibre as target, especially with the user base. Or contrast the stupidity of Office 2007 with Office 2003 and why hiding less used menu items is the biggest stupidity ever. Or why though a tile based touch GUI is excellent for small screen information consumption it's almost useless for Content creation. Or why Android TV is so much a worse GUI & UX than ordinary Android and the interfaces used by Sony or Sky before it. Calibre is a very niche program to manage ebooks for ereaders, though people do manage to use it for ereading apps and also for other content. I've mentored students doing FYP, Masters and one doing a PhD and I can't see where you can be going with this as a UX study.