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Oh, COME ON, people. Stop replying to these troll threads.
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To be honest, Calibre takes quite a while to run on my laptop. However, that is mostly due to a slower harddisk than CPU. Otherwise it works fine. I manage my books in it and that's it. I don't do conversions with it, so no experience on that side.
I think it is rather rude to rant like this. If you find a problem/bug, create an issue so Kovid and Co can work on it. |
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I don't believe anyone would say that calibre is perfect, but it's the best one out there and improving all the time.
I'm looking forward to the calibre replacement program EowynCarter will write to prove that he knows better than everyone else. (who knows he might) But till then I'm very very happy with calibre oh and @sidd.artha I feel your pain .. why won't Kovid write a version to run on my Commodore 64 ? |
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I have a Sinclair ZX-81! Let's see Kovid get calibre into 2k of RAM (it was 1k before I doubled it).
Eowyn, we've told you before, calibre is not a file manager, any more than Windows Explorer is a block/sector manager. Calibre will not be made into a file manager. That's not what it's for. If you want a file manager, your computer came with one. If you want a book manager, that's what calibre is. It's an important difference. And I thought you promised us you were going to stop posting about software that doesn't meet your needs? |
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That's the nice thing about Calibre. All the source code is available, so that if the original poster cares to take the time to make it work the way that he wishes it to, he's entirely at liberty to do so.
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Not that the original poster requested any help. But in amongst his whining and other's responses that they could run calibre on a netbook was the hint that maybe something was wrong.
To the original poster, check out this thread and try again after the next release comes out. |
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As I've seen quite a few messages from rich spoiled brats with have a lot of toys lying around the house and I know that your kind has a short attention span I have put this at the beginning instead at the end of my message: please send me a private message and I can gladly forward you some postal addresses where you can make a kind donation with your spoiled kid 2G RAM laptop, your extra ebook reader and all the rest. They are going to be appreciated and it's going to be a lot more help than telling me to upgrade my hardware.
As there seem to be some misunderstandings thanks to my poor command of English and in the light of the helpful answers I have received my original message can be syntetised like this: Almost each paragraph has an issue. I'll number them. 1. my background. No issue here 2. Slow load on my super cheap machine. It's my fault, sorry 3. It eats too much memory on my netbook even kids in your world find obscene to use Also my fault 4. Autodetection is slow. That was fixed, it's my fault I run something you would not dignify to use Also as my files are mostly PDFs and there are no two formats for the same book I have seen duplicates as two files alike. Here people have the need to store the same book in more than one formats so this is also my fault for not having two or three gadgedts around I sported a possible fix, but here you don't seem to need fixes, as everything works „fine”. 5. The last version gives an error about the meta reader crashing. As kindly was put I don't have to upgrade so it's not an issue, it's my fault 6. Errors do not specify where a book has ended in the filesystem. Guess that can be considered a bug, but nobody noticed it, so probably it's my fault again 7. There is quite a large download for every patch, but as was put in clear I do not have to upgrade. So bug solved 8. Although calibre can get on the web, itself it is to dumb/limited to do the upgrade (I'm having Firefox as an example, but a one of the devs nicely put, this does not apply to complex software which one has to learn in order to use). Again it is my fault for having a low spec machine which can't handle both calibre, a browser, etc. Why save resources when you can waste more. I believe that was the credo which lead to those impressive American cars of the '40s and '50s. 9. Calibre can't handle well and in a simple manner changes to the filesystem. This is my fault twice. Once that I did not recognise there should be a drive dedicated to Calibre which nothing else could touch. And second because I did not spend time understanding a complex application. 10. Redundant already 11. Someone has pointed out that plugins do not get loaded unless needed, although I'm not sure if I can believe that. But it is my fault for not familiarising myself with a complex app. 12. Once a sub-window is open nothing else can be done, even if working on a multitasking system. I thought this is not my fault, but I have checked and AbiWord does the same. And it is not complex, and by the size of it in memory it's at least 10 times less interesting than Calibre. So it's my fault 13. The metadata editor works bad with a large database, sometimes hanging. I used to think this is a bug, but I had no idea how my petty choices of computer can make you uninteresting to a software developer. So, yes, it is my fault 14. & 15. useless closing formulas. The conclusion it's that you have solved all 12 problems with this thread. 12 out of 12 and not a line of code extra! That is really something! Answers following. I see how you have reached over 1.500 posts. Guess Yahoo Messenger would be much nicer than a forum. I've seen you are trying hard to communicate something, but you are limited to one liners. Try to gather all that info in one batch. Follow my example! Quote:
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So your final answer is I should get a top of the line machine to run this well. Guess I should uninstall calibre as I don't have the money right now. And given a few other examples I know of open source software, by the time I upgrade not only there would be 10 times more features I don't need or probably I would have to pay. Quote:
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Having a gadget to carry around? No. It's probably my English. I already have quite a few things to carry around. As a photographer I carry at least one camera. Than maybe an extra lens and an extra battery, a mobile phone, a laptop, chargers for all three. I stopped wearing watches a decade ago. Quote:
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Can you make Calibre work „fine” on my netbook? Can YOU make the meta editor not hang up? After you're done with that I can ask for more help, but I'm quite sure you won't do a thing even when I ask in plain. This is why I made a list of problems with Calibre. Quote:
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God bless you and may the public servants, police, doctors, etc be as nice to you and your problems. As I have been cured! Haleluja! |
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Now, that was just pathetic. As far as my "one liners" go, you are talking through your hat. The majority of my posts are actually quite detailed and many people have found them helpful or of some other kind of worth. How else do you think I racked up over 57k in karma? The reason I said what I said in your quote was we just had another child ranting about what was wrong with calibre. However, with this latest post of yours, you have exceeded the childishness of even that clown, assuming you aren't the same person.
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We all have to live with our decisions. The computer I use cost 153 dollars on Ebay, nothing flashy but it runs the programs I use. You have a more expensive netbook that doesn't run the programs you want to run. Either live with your decision or change things. Quote:
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I've talked with a friend in the mean time and he really got mad. This overnight scripted hack called a complex software? A buggy stream processor being hailed as good? Hmm... his example was Garmin Map Source loaded with the detailed maps of North America and Europe. On a netbook like mine it does not get over 80MB in RAM. This two bit converter goes up to 200MB for 2 500 books from which about half are detected as novels of the famous Unknown french writer of the past century. Even OpenOffice.org is smaller, and guess what? it can do conversion too. And a lot more. Do you have any idea of the size of Firefox? 8M the installer. And it does have real plugins. When I think of the time wasted on this piece of junk!
PS: for you stupid spoiled brats who feel that my netbook is offensive to your world the offer is still there to take the dated 2GB toys off your hands. PPS: for those who feel I am ungrateful to some people making something as wonderful as Internet Explorer 6 in the days of Google Chrome 9 I wonder how it would be for you in real life to be treated the way you treat people online. |
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I'm curious, do you flame the Adobe boards too because your machine can't play all of the Flash games out there?
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Other people in this forum are nice. I am not. So I will say what they won't: You are a spoiled little git who expects to have everything done exactly the way you want it or you will whine, cry, and kick your little feet. You've given us a fine demonstration. But life doesn't work that way.
You chose to spend a substantial amount of money on a netbook, which puts its resources into portability, size, and battery life, instead of spending a lesser amount of money on a much more powerful (but less portable) computer, such as a decent used desktop. That was your choice. Because of that choice, there is some software you will not be able to run. Once again, you are faced with a choice: you can accept that your preference for portability, size, and battery life will preclude you running that software, or you can bawl like a toddler throwing a tantrum in Wal-Mart. You picked the tantrum. And you wonder why people react as though you're a spoiled little child? Yes, a lot of people here have ebook readers and several computers. Me, for instance. We make our choices. I don't have cable TV. I drive a 20-year-old car. I repair things myself, usually until they fall apart. Splurging on clothes involves a new pair of jeans from a discount store when the old ones have holes. I don't go to movies, concerts, or nice restaurants. I have "lots of toys" because there are lots of other things that most people take for granted that I don't have. It's a choice I've made. And you made your choices. You chose to whine. |
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