There are very useful parts of Calibre - formats, device profiles, the plugin ecosystem. There is very little point in maintaining a “collection” of digital stuff you did not create and do not plan to use. Music collection managers are barely alive. There used to be a whole class of applications to track your physical library (with barcode scanning &c I remember Delicious Library), physical CDs, … All are now dead. People are obsessive, though, and will spend countless hours tracking things for no benefit when given a tool to do so.Ĭalibre comes from a period in the '00s where people did a lot of this sort of metadata tracking and cataloguing. I don’t see a reason to track that, and think you are inventing a use case where there isn’t any. > And if you have thousands of books and multiple devices, keeping track of what's on each device and which format is best for the device gets messy. There is a whole thread of people there who can’t get their reading position synced using Calibre. Yet the underlying activity (reading) is not complicated. > different readers have different ways to do things You come off as just having an axe to grind here for no good reason and negative comments like this do cause people to stop contributing. I could say the same thing about the gimp. It's not great but it does the job perfectly well for lots of people.
I think the issue here is that your critique is way out of proportion to reality Calibre is.
Don't use it.īe respectful of others the contribution they make, the effort they go to.
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If you work an open source, that doesn't give you a free moral entitlement to tell other people their work is crap, should have more features, should have the one feature you personally want for whatever reason. If you're a woman and you make jokes about how women should be at home cleaning not being engineers, it's not "fine", it just makes you a dickhead. The only close competitor is Foliate, which is not cross-platform like Calibre, and even then it simply lacks many useful features that I rely on with Calibre, despite having a much cleaner UI.
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That's really what most people need out of e-book software, but Calibre really does go above and beyond any e-book software on the market right now. Adding books is trivial, as is editing metadata, and the reader itself is splendid. It's very easy to set up, as all you do is either point to a pre-existing library of files or create a new one. I'm perplexed as to whether some of the people in this thread and I are using the same software. It's rarely buggy, fast, logical to use, very feature-rich, and rather customisable. It is hands down one of the most useful programs on my computer. The proof of the pudding is Calibre itself, which is a joy to use. Add to the fact that he eventually fixed every bug in that thread as well as second-language difficulties that he likely experiences, and the vitriol that people have for him is undeserved.
His only 'crime' was being blunt with a bug report around eleven years ago, and I'm struggling to see why people are so myopic as to turn that into their entire perception of him. He's very patient and kind with beginners, responsive to feedback, and rarely loses his cool with anyone. Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time on the mobileread forums will also know him as a remarkably intelligent, dedicated, and all-round fantastic guy. Kovid puts in an extraordinary amount of work (nearly 80 hours a week) into Calibre - of which most is for free, in the name of open source software. I must admit, I'm slightly shocked at some of the comments here. This comment is from the perspective of a Calibre power-user, and someone who has been involved with the software for years now.
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