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I might use the web browser, text chat/VOIP/Video chat or word processor for hours every day. I might go weeks without even opening Calibre and then it's only because I've bought an ebook or found a new bunch of Public Domain ebooks (here, Gutenberg but not Archive dot org – Wayback Machine – unless I'm desperate for a particular really PD title and prepared to read a scan to PDF. Their ebooks are not usually proofed, poor OCR of PDF and they also pirate content. Downloaded too much mobi/epub garbage from Archive dot org). If you are only using a physical library to read novels (printed or ebook), then it too is a kind of transient tool, as is Kindle Store on Amazon or Smashwords.com or Google Playstore for books. Comics or graphic novels do come in electronic format and can be managed by Calibre. Most don't take as long to consume. I only use Calibre's viewer to preview ebooks I'm producing. It might take 2 weeks to a year to write a 1st draft of a novel. It takes minutes to make the docx into an epub2 ebook to proof read and annotate on an eink based ereader. Minutes to read all the annotations in Calibre and copy paste into KATE, a multitab text editor and then half a day to two weeks to edit the source novel in LO Writer, depending on how many annotations there are and revision level of the book. But I spend most time using Calibre to import, clean and transfer old public domain novels rather than our own books. I spend about x20 more time ordinary reading than actual proof reading |
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Format shifting and converting formats are the same.
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After posting the survey and getting some data, I realized in hindsight there were a few questions that didn't get included in the questions for Calibre users.
So I'll post them here and hope I'll get at least some answers. 1) There are several layouts available for displaying your library. Which one do you prefer and why? (Listview [default], Cover browser and Cover Grid) 2a) How would you prefer displaying the content of a connected device and why? (In a separate window, in a separate tab, in a separate pane [library and device side by side] or current method [switch display mode: library/device]) 2b) Do you prefer device content to display automatically on connection or on command? Please describe why? Thank you for all responses so far. |
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1) List view. I want to see as much information as possible without clicking through individual books. Makes sense if you have thousands of ebooks.
2) A separate pane would be ideal, but the current method works as well. 3) No preference. Possibly I'm too used to the way it's always been. |
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1 - List view. 99.9% of the time I'm reading information not looking at pretty pictures. The only time I've ever used cover view is when I was looking for naff covers, and I now have them tagged.
2 - A tick in main pane when device is connected. I use a small laptop for library management and don't want to switch between windows or tabs; I have enough of that when I'm logging on LibraryThing. 3 - Automatically when connected. The column goes away when there's no device. |
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1. List view. It shows the detail I want.
2a. The current method works for me. 2b. I want the device automatically, but, not change to the device view. |
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As for the UX, what you get depends on what you do and what you need to do. My UX may be very different from someone else's UX based on what I have installed and what I do with Calibre. My UX works for me. Calibre was originally called LibPRS500 because it was written for the Sony Reader PRS-500. It was because of this that I bought the PRS-500. I used to buy MSReader and Mobi format eBooks because I could remove the DRM and convert to LRF (the original format Sony used). Quote:
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This is one done for books I am unsure of. |
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Actually, they are not the same thing. Using the KindleUnpack plugin you can format shift from KF8 to ePub. That is not the same as converting from KF8 to ePub. Format shifting keeps the code as much the same as it can while creating the new format.
Sometimes format shifting doesn't work well because the underlying code is a mess. This happens a lot with self-published eBooks on Amazon. So in that case, converting can be the better option. But when you do format shift, you do have to check for errors as there are some. In most cases, the errors are very easy to fix. |
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2a. Most of the time I prefer the way Calibre does it. Most of the time I don't have a need or desire to see what's on my device. 2b. I prefer the way it's done were the information of what's on my device is not automatically displayed buy is very easily accessible. |
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Says who, besides you?
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Jon, neither of the two KindleUnpack options for AZW3 say format shift, they says KF8 to Epub and unpack AZW3. For the KF8 to Epub option if the KF8 file has an embedded epub, that will be extracted, otherwise the KF8 will be converted/format shifted to epub. The other option is to unpack the KF8 which is sometimes useful for checking images, etc.
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