02-25-2012, 04:08 AM | #31 |
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If you think that itunes or ibooks (Apple products) are made by people with sense of usability, we should agree to disagree And BTW, I'm a software designer
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02-25-2012, 04:44 AM | #32 |
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I think you have "user-friendly" confused with calibre not being as pretty as Apple products. While usability can be debated, I guess your statement of opinion is true enough.
My daughter recently called from college. We have only used Sony ereaders and she had never started or used calibre prior to this. It took me about 60 seconds to explain to her (and about 60 second for her to accomplish) how to convert 3 books from ePub to Mobi and place those three books on her roommates Kindle. Because of Apple's "walled garden" if her roommate had an iPad instead of a Kindle the process would have been much longer. Apple does well with their apps but woe to the Apple user that needs to go outside Apple's ecosystem to accomplish something. It is fine to be an Apple fanboy or a calibre fanboy and your first statement was sensible enough but this last statement is just plain nonsensical and adds nothing to the conversation. |
02-25-2012, 07:06 AM | #33 |
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Very, very little longer, actually. Once you have the Kindle App installed on the iPad, just save the books to disk from Calibre, and then drag and drop them onto the Kindle App tab in iTunes.
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02-25-2012, 07:21 AM | #34 | |
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02-25-2012, 08:16 AM | #35 |
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It just has a little bit of a learning curve.... and the hidden riches in the program once you figure it out are worth every bit of the 'hassle'. Kovid has to be one of the most responsive program authors I've come across in my meager internet wanderings.
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02-25-2012, 09:47 AM | #36 | |
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Or how about not including a native To Do list? Or started without the ability to create Folders of apps? |
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02-25-2012, 12:03 PM | #37 | |
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go moan at apple, not here! |
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02-25-2012, 11:45 PM | #38 | |
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02-26-2012, 07:14 AM | #39 |
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02-26-2012, 03:11 PM | #40 |
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Semantics, dialect, region, country, planet aside my point was that Calibre is as simple as operating a light switch
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02-26-2012, 03:45 PM | #41 |
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02-26-2012, 04:25 PM | #42 |
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Your light switches must be pretty complicated .
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02-26-2012, 04:30 PM | #43 |
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One thing I notice:
New people that try and force Calibre into doing things their (old) way seem to have the most problems. |
02-27-2012, 11:03 AM | #44 | |
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Apple makes great hard- and software, great design and easy to use. Sometimes they omit some features and you can’t configure everything. But Linux is also not everybody’s cup of tea. You can’t blame the users for that. Calibre is a very useful program, but its user interface could be improved, and we should help the developers in dong that instead of just complaining. Nevertheless also in this case you shouldn’t blame the users for criticizing the usability. I’ve heard such complaints from VLC developers when I told in their forum that their settings GUI was very hard to use. |
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02-27-2012, 11:10 AM | #45 |
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Calibre good, versitle....Apple insular.
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