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The idea is good and I'm always looking forward to the day where there's a good alternative to Calibre. Unfortunately the design is giving me a very strong Cal
by dewey 7y ago
The idea is good and I'm always looking forward to the day where there's a good alternative to Calibre.
Unfortunately the design is giving me a very strong Calibre vibe.
Some suggestions that I think don't look good on top of what the other people already said:
- 3 different fonts, unify it to use one (and none of them should be Papyrus)
- The book covers are the main part of your app, so they should stand out by either using the book cover, or a place holder which the book title being presented in a way that doesn't result in 5 line breaks
- donio 7y agoCalibre is not bad if you stick to the CLI utilities and avoid the GUI. ebook-convert in particular is pretty much all I need from Calibre. I normally run it with the following options: ebook-convert input.someformat output.mobi --remove-paragraph-spacing --change-justification=justify --enable-heuristics --unsmarten-punctuation (It's picky about the ordering of the input/output vs the flags)
- dewey 7y agoI usually download some additional metadata and then send it to my Kindle via the "Mail to Kindle" Mail address, I could probably script that part easily but for the few times I use it right now I'll just have to stick to the GUI.
- benologist 7y agoThere's a project called COPS which adds a small web site to your Calibre library so you open it in the Kindle browser - it's pretty convenient: https://github.com/seblucas/cops https://github.com/seblucas/cops http://www.linux-magazine.com/var/linux_magazin/storage/images/media/linux-magazine-eng-us/images/cops/552543-1-eng-US/cops_reference.png http://www.linux-magazine.com/var/linux_magazin/storage/imag...