08-23-2013, 06:07 AM | #16 |
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Congratulations, Kovid, and thank you for all of your hard work, and a big thanks to all other contributors as well!
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08-23-2013, 06:56 AM | #17 |
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Thank you Kovid. I have never seen any other freeware updated and supported as much as Calibre. Thank you, again for all of your hard work.
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08-23-2013, 07:07 AM | #18 |
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Woo-Hoo!
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08-23-2013, 07:21 AM | #19 |
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I have to agree with you there Apache. Not only is it updated more often but the program seems to keep good pace with changes in OS as well. A lot of programs cease to function (or at least to function well) as time goes on but not Calibre. I don't know many freeware programs that that can be said about. I can remember asking a question about joining epub files together a few yrs back and now of course it's possible to do that. I don't know how long that addition to the program had been in development, but (I think) it made an already great program even better.
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08-23-2013, 07:23 AM | #20 |
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Fantastic job! Calibre is the heart of my ebook library and I can't imagine ebook life without it. As soon as I actually get a job again, I'll drop in another donation as celebration.
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08-23-2013, 07:46 AM | #21 |
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Congrats Kovid!
Here are four (out of 1000s?) of possible interface looks under the calibre 1.0 banner. Last edited by DoctorOhh; 08-23-2013 at 10:09 AM. |
08-23-2013, 07:52 AM | #22 |
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Congratulations! You all, and most of all of course Kovid have done an amazing job in building calibre and making it even better with each release! I can't imagine managing and reading my ebooks without calibre and I hope it stays around as long as there are ebooks to read and catalogue .
The greatest strength of calibre (other than the great community of course) is how many useful features, big and small, it has. Of the features introduced between 0.9 and 1.0, I especially love the Polish Books and Edit TOC features, both of which I use all the time. (The coloured rows are also very handy, not sure if they have been around longer though.) Looking forward to the new cover grid and faster database code . I also love the weekly stable updates, I wish every open source project did that! Though I have to admit I might wait till next week before I update this time, just in case you guys missed a vital bug in the new database backend . I know, it's very unlikely after the long test period, but some obscure bugs tend to only be found once a new release is deployed beyond the beta testers. So everyone updating now: Make sure you have backed up your library . Last edited by Dylan Tomorrow; 08-23-2013 at 08:02 AM. |
08-23-2013, 07:58 AM | #23 |
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An awesome accomplishment in so many ways, and a tool that I rely on personally.
Software reaches greatness when it's solid, fun to use and it accomplishes an important purpose. Thumbs up on all three counts, and a big thanks for your efforts! |
08-23-2013, 08:00 AM | #24 |
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@Dylan Tomorrow: Given the vast complexity of calibre, no beta period, no matter how long would ever give 100% coverage, so there are likely to be bugs. The hope is that those bugs are mostly obscure corner cases. The main code paths in the new backend have been pretty extensively tested, both by beta testers and by a fairly comprehensive test suite I wrote as I was developing the new backend. But, there are never any guarantees...
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08-23-2013, 08:05 AM | #25 |
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@kovidgoyal: That's my hope too. I'm just gonna wait till next week anyway, because I am overcautious like that .
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08-23-2013, 08:53 AM | #27 |
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Brilliant upgrade but need to know how to access the brilliant virtual libraries via calibre server - using this with Marvin on iPad? Thanks.
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08-23-2013, 09:03 AM | #28 |
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I doubt Marvin has support for virtual libraries. If you browse to the content server using a browser, you can simply click the virtual libraries button on the start page.
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08-23-2013, 09:08 AM | #29 |
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Oh, Huzzah!!!! I love Calibre and talk it up to all and sundry, although I frequently get "Oh, that's too complicated"(which is baloney) I really think that Calibre has improved the popularity of ebooks--it certainly made them more appealing to me. I just wish I could afford to give you as big a donation as it's worth!
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08-23-2013, 09:58 AM | #30 |
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Congratulations Kovid and everyone else who are involved!! Thank you all for providing what is undoubtedly the most amazing freeware program I know of, as well as far and away the best supported one. It's frankly almost beyond comprehension that a program of Calibre's quality can be free in this day and age.
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