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I use Calibre daily on macOS to manage epub/mobi eBooks. Curious what use case you found difficult?
by samfriedman 7y ago
I use Calibre daily on macOS to manage epub/mobi eBooks. Curious what use case you found difficult?
- konart 7y agoFrustrating, rather than difficult. 1) Crashed on some of my files (don't know why, other readers open them correctly) during the import. 2) Can't really open pdf. In takes seconds to open epub, but a medium sized pdf (say 450 pages) takes up to two minutes easily. 3) After doesn't keep formatting in pdf files (tables\code blocks\etc). Making in useless. 4) By default Calibre will try to open pdf in Preview which, but this way you have to manually keep the count (how many pages you have read). 5) The reader itself is ugly. You can castomize it I assume, but I don't really want to bother. 6) Lot's of unneeded things (just an opinion) like news downloader. 7) Some smaller but still annoying probles I can't really remember. All in all in makes it even harder to keep track of your books than a good folder structre, it's quite slow and buggy, it does LOTS of thing, but none of them is done great.
- samfriedman 7y agoI agree with all points: I am lucky that my Calibre workflow avoids PDF files almost completely. Its support there is really lacking. The metadata tracking & organization is good, but anything beyond import + sync to devices can get dicey. With the devs refusal to port to Python 3, I wouldn't be surprised if a challenger begins to siphon away Calibre's users in the near future.