10-01-2009, 02:34 AM | #181 |
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You have got a level of heirarchical organization if you click on the "tag" icon at the bottom right. It may not apply to you, but a surprising number of people seemed to have missed seeing this view.
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10-01-2009, 06:12 AM | #182 | |
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Like I said above, there are many other programs that are excellent, free or paid, but simply do not suit me so I use something else instead. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find an alternative to calibre for me to try. The Library management software has four threads: - calibre, - Sigil "an open-source WYSIWYG ebook editor designed to edit books in ePub format", - Reading Software and - OpenInkpot, "a community project aimed at creating a free, open-source firmware replacement for various e-book devices." There is no venue for me to ask for recommendations for programs other than calibre. If you know of such a thread, or an outside link, I would be much obliged. |
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10-05-2009, 04:12 AM | #184 |
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I love calibre
But here is a simple question to @kovidgoyal: "isn't it possible and fairly easy to let calibre add books at their CURRENT location?" just an optional feature in the settings will make everyone happy! |
10-05-2009, 04:22 AM | #185 | |
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It is on the "wish list" as a planned future enhancement, so at some future date this likely to become available. As always with a significant change it is likely to destabalise calibre for a while until the change settles in so will need to be done with care. |
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11-17-2009, 07:18 AM | #186 |
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Hi all,
I never imagined this thread would extend to 13 pages long, but that's the beauty of open minds. kovidgoyal, Reading your posts for the past 13 pages, I've heard nothing but contempt and high-horse attitude. You're certainly welcome to act that way and it in no way has anything to do with your program. I would advise you to accept constructive criticism a little better, if you care about the quality of your program. That's all I'll say. You can bash me all you want To everyone else. After much searching, I have finally found "THE" program for managing my books. I tried tens of solutions and Calibre was the least of all "evils". Now, it's changed. Calibre goes in the trash until the author makes revisions and in comes bookTome. Simply put, booktome is the best program hands down I've used so far. It's portable! (yes!) NO settings saved outside of the registry if you run portable mode. Well-designed interface USER-managed titles. Yes, it took me a couple of hours to manage my 500+ books on economics, I know the titles are 100% correct and correlate to Amazon.com. Yes, it is SLIGHTLY buggy, but the author has a wonderful bug tracking system on his site. I do wish he (the author) was as swift to respond to requests as kovid is, but the product is free Thanks to the author of Calibre for spending the time to do it, but as the title says -- no thanks. If you were a completely abrasive individual that had the best software, I would use it. As it stands now, bookTome is a better solution for me (and I imagine for many others, given the general displeasure I've heard through private chat from this site). With that, I close. The stage is now yours. |
11-17-2009, 07:30 AM | #187 | |
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Speaking of an arrogant high horse attitude, I think you take the cake. Have fun. P.S. booktome doesn't appear to even integrate with ANY ebook reader. Last edited by kennyc; 11-17-2009 at 07:33 AM. |
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11-17-2009, 07:37 AM | #188 |
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Here is the list of Known Issues with the current bookTome Release (from the website). I particularly like that fifth bullet - it doesn't support Ebooks.
------------------- Known Issues The following known issues are present in this version: * Searching on numeric fields is currently only permitted as if they were text, * Minor display issues when running in Large Fonts (120dpi), * Changes to the Description field are not entered in the history database, * There is no support for changing the name of authors, publishers and other lookup lists, * There is no support for eBooks, which will be introduced in future versions. These bugs will be fixed in a future version of bookTome. Language Support Unfortunately due to technical and time limitations the program does not support foreign languages. This includes both the translation of the user interface into other languages, as well as typing and displaying foreign languages that use the Unicode or UTF-8 format. This section will be updated if the situation for this issue changes. ------------------ Only runs on Windows as well..... |
11-17-2009, 08:07 AM | #189 |
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I must agree. I would find BookTome completely useless as the features I use most in Calibre are the conversion capabilities and the integration with my eReader - neither of which BookTome supports.
BookTome also does not support storing eBooks - this is something I could do without using Calibre, but using Calibre for this has brought a lot more discipline into how I do this. In other words BookTome seems designed for cataloging and managing paper libraries and not eBook ones. |
11-17-2009, 09:44 AM | #190 |
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For the final time, I am asking that posts to this thread be kept within the range of civility that we have all come to expect at MobileRead. If this thread goes back into name calling, it will be closed.
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11-17-2009, 11:22 AM | #191 |
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Apologies, if that was directed at me. I probably should not have responded "in kind."
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11-17-2009, 01:21 PM | #192 |
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Although I am a moderator in this community, please consider this post as a personal remark from someone who loves dealing with ebooks.
I have been into ebooks for what must be over 10 years, exactly when I got a Palm V as a Xmas gift (thanks dad). I know how cumbersome it was to deal with different ebook formats, to make an ebook compatible for my specific device(s), and to find a way to keep track of everything I have already read. Then I discovered calibre (I wasn't one of its first users although it had been already a dedicated part of this community), and today I can say without hesitation that it is one of the few tools I couldn't live without anymore. Not only has it made most other ebook related tools obsolete for my own needs, but also does it do so many things better than I could have ever wished for. For this, I greatly thank Kovid and of course everyone else who has been involved in the project. Now, as a moderator speaking again, I would kindely ask everyone to remain respectful to each other. Sure, you may disagree with someone or someone's work, but then you are also free to look for alternatives or do your own thing. Only, please be respectful, in particular to those who've helped a lot to make the ebook movement prosper. My thanks again to Kovid. Last edited by Alexander Turcic; 11-17-2009 at 01:24 PM. |
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- I use one css file for multiple books in one folder - My css file in the folder refers master css file (located in the top folder) - in case I need to update HTML file, I need to manualy copy it out from ZIP, change it and manualy copy it back. I understand that handling (I mean copying all related files) is easier this way, but since you are handling teh folder structure yourseft, you could handle file collection without zipping them either, right? |
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03-01-2010, 11:15 AM | #194 |
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Hi all,
I just wanted to issue an apology and retraction to kovidgoyal (author of calibre). After booktome did not work for my needs, I gave this program another shot. I suppose I didn't fully understand the program intent/my needs from a program. Although I do maintain that the user should still be given the option to add books but not modify the layout of the user's books, I've found calibre's style of doing things now fits my needs. I am looking forward to working with kovidgoyal + mobileread to make this program an even more perfect solution. |
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Welcome aboard. Always glad to have a new convert
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