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Originally Posted by DNSB
Given that opening calibre's tag browser has an Authors item which when you click on the down arrow shows a list of all authors in it's database, it's hard to argue that another program would give you an easier interface. And what do you do about the mass of authors where male/female/whatever is not immediately apparent from the name -- is S. W. Clarke male or female? Was Andre Norton male or female?
If Kovid was charging us what Adobe does, you might have a point. As it is, he went with the lowest common denominator. And note that I gave an example where Adobe has issues on Mac OSX due to variable support for case sensitivity.
Hmmm... metadata download will cover most of your author, title, series, year of publication, tags, etc. Author's year of birth, etc. would call for a custom column. For information on custom columns, see the calibre FAQs for Why doesn't calibre have a column for foo?, the calibre custom columns entry in the calibre blog, etc. Repeat the custom columns for other columns you want that calibre does not support out of the box.
I'm not sure what you mean by extension? epub? azw3? That is already covered by formats.
As for dimension? Are you putting paper books in your library with the paperback/trade paperback or hardcover? Otherwise unless you have an pdf or other fixed format file, that might be worthwhile but since most of my ebooks are reflowable, dimension is a rather meaningless concept? |
for sex: I repeat that my problem is that I cannot keep a single archive because my PC crashes (and in any case I don't like having everything together, I find it absurd to have the classics with comics in the same archive). So with Everything I find everything in a second, with Caliber I have to open the right archive, always if I remember which one I put the book I am looking for because some books can fit into different categories / archives
truncated names: I don't think I understand your answer well. I just reminded you that using Caliber I feel like I went back to the days of MS-DOS and this is undeniable. Here they even advised me to use Caliber on the command line ... a nice thing in the past for the nostalgic
metadata: sorry but I don't understand, I need the columns I wrote to be shown because I often do targeted searches and I need to have them immediately visible. My monitor is not very big and I can only put a certain number of columns.
The extensions I need to replace the books I have in pdf with epubs when I find them
The size I need to understand if I have duplicates, if they are the same size I delete one, if it is different I open them and keep the best one