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test011 · 02-14-2010, 05:09 AM

I've been using this wonderful calibre for a couple of months, and really appreciate all the work. This is some software!

There are some odd things though. (Under OS Windows7 64bit, Korean edition)

1. When I hook up my Kindle there appears an icon that represents it, in the same row as red heart, with Eject arrow when you point at it. But Eject doesn't work. (I've reported this about a month ago. Maybe this is Windows7 specific problem. Doesn't get fixed.)

2. When you add an e-book - mobi,azw format with DRM or no DRM - sometimes it fails to read Meta data. Calire gives me an error. It says something about 'no permission' in some arbitrary folders (programs files, users, system32) This might be a Windows7 specific or a Plug-in problem (MobiDeDRM)

3. A suggestion. So, so many books sold from Amazon has "Author' field confused. It's always has lastname first with comma'ed first name like this 'Spangler, Ann'

Out of 87 books purchased from Amazon, only 2 of them properly had "firstname lastname" format in 'Author' field. All others, 85 books (and not to mention 23 books from manybooks.net) had 'lastname, firstname' format in the field.

I am not complaining the way they are put of course, I am suggesting maybe you can create a button to convert this automatically. Something like when you have 'Doe, John" in Author field, you hit it and get 'John Doe'. Such feature sure seems worth it.

02-14-2010, 05:09 AM	#1
test011 Connoisseur Posts: 65 Karma: 20728 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: K2i, K3(B006), KT(WiFi)	calibre with Kindle2 I've been using this wonderful calibre for a couple of months, and really appreciate all the work. This is some software! There are some odd things though. (Under OS Windows7 64bit, Korean edition) 1. When I hook up my Kindle there appears an icon that represents it, in the same row as red heart, with Eject arrow when you point at it. But Eject doesn't work. (I've reported this about a month ago. Maybe this is Windows7 specific problem. Doesn't get fixed.) 2. When you add an e-book - mobi,azw format with DRM or no DRM - sometimes it fails to read Meta data. Calire gives me an error. It says something about 'no permission' in some arbitrary folders (programs files, users, system32) This might be a Windows7 specific or a Plug-in problem (MobiDeDRM) 3. A suggestion. So, so many books sold from Amazon has "Author' field confused. It's always has lastname first with comma'ed first name like this 'Spangler, Ann' Out of 87 books purchased from Amazon, only 2 of them properly had "firstname lastname" format in 'Author' field. All others, 85 books (and not to mention 23 books from manybooks.net) had 'lastname, firstname' format in the field. I am not complaining the way they are put of course, I am suggesting maybe you can create a button to convert this automatically. Something like when you have 'Doe, John" in Author field, you hit it and get 'John Doe'. Such feature sure seems worth it.