[Faterson]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I seem to remember you used Calibre in the past. What changed?

I simply no longer find it very useful/necessary. I organize my book collections in Drobpox folders, and that suffices me. I can also load them straight from Dropbox to my 8+ reading devices (including the e-ink PocketBook), so it's no longer necessary for me to use Calibre for any operation, really. (Also, I use several Windows computers, and Calibre used to act up occasionally, when I tried to keep its database in sync across multiple Windows computers, using Dropbox. It just no longer seemed worth the bother for me...)

Calibre is a fine piece of software, but I just no longer find any particular use for it.

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Hmm... background textures motivating someone to read is one of the weirdest things I've heard.

Makes perfect sense, if you think about it. People enjoy looking at beautiful things more than they enjoy looking at dull and boring things. Because I find background textures more beautiful to look at than looking at dull and boring solid-color backgrounds (which can be downright sleep-inducing, if truth be told), then this motivates me to read more and longer – because who wouldn't want to prolong his or her experience of looking at something that's beautiful?

Originally Posted by Sirtel

More features is always better than fewer.

I fully agree with you, but you'd be surprised to hear all the foul copout excuses that the darn corporations come up with, Apple foremost among them! Alleged "feature bloat".

"Yeah, our Apple software is so dumb on purpose, tailor-made for users with a sub-70 IQ, so as not to confuse our poor users with too many features and options!"

It's really a despicable, condescending attitude towards users of software.

If a piece of software is well-designed, it can never confuse anyone with "too many features and options".

For all I care, there can be a basic mode of BookFusion, providing users with all the basic options, while more demanding users might activate the advanced mode in BookFusion settings, providing all the rest of the options. It's not necessary to design software that way, but always possible!

The foul copout of "feature bloat" and "too many options" is baseless and unpardonable.