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Originally Posted by crashnburn
PS: In terms of "preview" Pane in Windows Explorer, not within Calibre App, is that possible?
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I've not used windows since 2016 for everyday stuff. I never had a preview
icon for ebooks, but added a plug-in to Explorer on XP to show a preview icon for PDFs. Really slow.
I remember Win7 and Win10 had the terrible preview
pane in Explorer. A crazy idea and massively destroys the ability to sensibly browse files. I turned it off.
My son has a Win10 / Linux dual boot PC for games. He uses a laptop with Linux for anything else. I have some XP VMs on Linux and VERY occasionally I boot my old Win XP box or Win 7 box for games (without Internet connections).
I have Steam now on Linux Mint on the Lenovo E460 i5 laptop, with the sole Win7 game I bought working on it natively (3D GPU too).
I never browse my ebook directories except to select the most recent downloads (sort by last modified) and import them to Calibre which creates a copy. So I only view/browse/search my ebooks within the main Calibre GUI, which has a nice instant preview of the cover. Far far faster than Win7 Explorer with Preview (for things it DID preview before I killed it. I did have Win7 & Linux dual boot on the Lenovo E460 laptop for a month or maybe two and then I deleted all the non-user files on that partition and converted it from NTFS to Ext4 (after backing up all my precious files copied from the old laptop to Win7 when I got it).