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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh
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How many of the 13 million are 'active' - i.e, have used Calibre in the last 3 months, and how many uninstalls are there per month.
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Originally Posted by Agama
There are also some technical terms which could possibly be simplified: e.g. "Edit Book Metadata" could be "Edit Book Information".
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I would add to that the problem of using the same word/term to refer to different things
The most glaring example is "Tag" which is used to refer to the collection of book attributes - author, series, formats, languages, etc, and some custom columns;
AND the list of words that characterise the content of the book
If the latter usage was renamed "Keywords" or the former was renamed "Attributes" that would avoid a great deal of confusion.
Someone wrote as advice to technical writers "
Use not many words when few would serve, nor different words with the same meaning, nor the same word with different meanings - lest you confuse your readers"
I've introduced 6-8 people to Calibre, I'm pretty sure none of them are active users. They all say they find it too complicated and that they don't have the time and/or inclination to figure it out, most have un-installed it. One has been an editor/translator for most of her working life and another is a literary agent/small publisher. Interestingly two of them retained the Library/Author/Title folder structure; they liked that bit, from that you can guess that they are not technically savvy :lol:
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