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stisev · 11-17-2009, 07:18 AM

Hi all,

I never imagined this thread would extend to 13 pages long, but that's the beauty of open minds.

kovidgoyal,
Reading your posts for the past 13 pages, I've heard nothing but contempt and high-horse attitude. You're certainly welcome to act that way and it in no way has anything to do with your program. I would advise you to accept constructive criticism a little better, if you care about the quality of your program. That's all I'll say. You can bash me all you want

To everyone else.
After much searching, I have finally found "THE" program for managing my books. I tried tens of solutions and Calibre was the least of all "evils". Now, it's changed. Calibre goes in the trash until the author makes revisions and in comes bookTome.

Simply put, booktome is the best program hands down I've used so far.

It's portable! (yes!) NO settings saved outside of the registry if you run portable mode.
Well-designed interface
USER-managed titles. Yes, it took me a couple of hours to manage my 500+ books on economics, I know the titles are 100% correct and correlate to Amazon.com.

Yes, it is SLIGHTLY buggy, but the author has a wonderful bug tracking system on his site. I do wish he (the author) was as swift to respond to requests as kovid is, but the product is free

Thanks to the author of Calibre for spending the time to do it, but as the title says -- no thanks. If you were a completely abrasive individual that had the best software, I would use it. As it stands now, bookTome is a better solution for me (and I imagine for many others, given the general displeasure I've heard through private chat from this site).

With that, I close. The stage is now yours.

11-17-2009, 07:18 AM	#186
stisev Austrian Economist Posts: 20 Karma: 16 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: X51v	Hi all, I never imagined this thread would extend to 13 pages long, but that's the beauty of open minds. kovidgoyal, Reading your posts for the past 13 pages, I've heard nothing but contempt and high-horse attitude. You're certainly welcome to act that way and it in no way has anything to do with your program. I would advise you to accept constructive criticism a little better, if you care about the quality of your program. That's all I'll say. You can bash me all you want To everyone else. After much searching, I have finally found "THE" program for managing my books. I tried tens of solutions and Calibre was the least of all "evils". Now, it's changed. Calibre goes in the trash until the author makes revisions and in comes bookTome. Simply put, booktome is the best program hands down I've used so far. It's portable! (yes!) NO settings saved outside of the registry if you run portable mode. Well-designed interface USER-managed titles. Yes, it took me a couple of hours to manage my 500+ books on economics, I know the titles are 100% correct and correlate to Amazon.com. Yes, it is SLIGHTLY buggy, but the author has a wonderful bug tracking system on his site. I do wish he (the author) was as swift to respond to requests as kovid is, but the product is free Thanks to the author of Calibre for spending the time to do it, but as the title says -- no thanks. If you were a completely abrasive individual that had the best software, I would use it. As it stands now, bookTome is a better solution for me (and I imagine for many others, given the general displeasure I've heard through private chat from this site). With that, I close. The stage is now yours.