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JonB · 09-06-2009, 01:20 PM

I'm going to stick my oar in here.

Calibre is a pretty good application fo collecting / transferring books to/from a Reader but so far it has failed to format various pdfs of mine into reasonable (by that I mean readable on the Reader) epub formats. It often fails to convert at all. I'd like to see it do a better job of this before new features are added. I don't think expecting users to understand regular expressions is good, and the arcane options for reformatting are totally inscruitable. Would also like to see better documentation so I can understand how to use the features.

I think the developer of this (albeit occasionally useful) program doesn't really understand what a good GUI really looks like.

09-06-2009, 01:20 PM	#30
JonB Member Posts: 21 Karma: 102 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: UK Device: Sony PR-505	I'm going to stick my oar in here. Calibre is a pretty good application fo collecting / transferring books to/from a Reader but so far it has failed to format various pdfs of mine into reasonable (by that I mean readable on the Reader) epub formats. It often fails to convert at all. I'd like to see it do a better job of this before new features are added. I don't think expecting users to understand regular expressions is good, and the arcane options for reformatting are totally inscruitable. Would also like to see better documentation so I can understand how to use the features. I think the developer of this (albeit occasionally useful) program doesn't really understand what a good GUI really looks like. Last edited by JonB; 09-06-2009 at 01:22 PM.