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bluexp · 09-08-2009, 02:40 PM

Hi everybody!
After searching for a while and examining different applications for managing my ebooks, I found Calibre.There are some positive and negative points about it and I wanted to submit some of negative points as new ticket but I was not sure whether that is a good place for that. I hope my mentioned experiments and suggestions help Calibre to improve faster.
Calibre is most feature rich application I've ever found. The best part is that it is free and cross-platform.
But honestly say,it has worst gui among the others.It uses large buttons which waste a lot of screen space(even when set to small icon).The cover browser is really amazing but it overlaps tag browser and makes it unusable.
There is a row under top large buttons (with a red heart at right) which is totally useless I think.
The procedure of getting book info form server works really excellent.I am really happy with getting book info from isbndb server. But fetched covers are a little small. Perhaps a better server for this task like amazon would be better.
There is a strange thing I found while using Calibre. There are 4 runing task with name "calibre-parallel" and another one with name "calibre". these tasks totally use something around 135MB of ram which I think it is really much (I have book label which uses only 30MB of ram). and I don't know why there is so much task for one running application.
Finally I would be more happy if there was possibility of adding book to database without moving them to library folder. I categorized my book in different folders according to their subjects and I want to have them that way without any duplication.This is what prevent me from adding my collection to this app(Please add an option for that if it's possible).
After all, I think this application has a long way to gain user attraction mostly because of its GUI (Bool Label is a sample of ideal user friendly intreface).

I am currently using both windows and linux and this app is the only choice I have for managing books on both of them, so I want to thank the author of this application for providing such application for free.

09-08-2009, 02:40 PM	#1
bluexp Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: My n95	My first impressions using Calibre Hi everybody! After searching for a while and examining different applications for managing my ebooks, I found Calibre.There are some positive and negative points about it and I wanted to submit some of negative points as new ticket but I was not sure whether that is a good place for that. I hope my mentioned experiments and suggestions help Calibre to improve faster. Calibre is most feature rich application I've ever found. The best part is that it is free and cross-platform. But honestly say,it has worst gui among the others.It uses large buttons which waste a lot of screen space(even when set to small icon).The cover browser is really amazing but it overlaps tag browser and makes it unusable. There is a row under top large buttons (with a red heart at right) which is totally useless I think. The procedure of getting book info form server works really excellent.I am really happy with getting book info from isbndb server. But fetched covers are a little small. Perhaps a better server for this task like amazon would be better. There is a strange thing I found while using Calibre. There are 4 runing task with name "calibre-parallel" and another one with name "calibre". these tasks totally use something around 135MB of ram which I think it is really much (I have book label which uses only 30MB of ram). and I don't know why there is so much task for one running application. Finally I would be more happy if there was possibility of adding book to database without moving them to library folder. I categorized my book in different folders according to their subjects and I want to have them that way without any duplication.This is what prevent me from adding my collection to this app(Please add an option for that if it's possible). After all, I think this application has a long way to gain user attraction mostly because of its GUI (Bool Label is a sample of ideal user friendly intreface). I am currently using both windows and linux and this app is the only choice I have for managing books on both of them, so I want to thank the author of this application for providing such application for free.