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>One of the reasons Calibre has become the de-facto gold standard for ebook managers Gold standard? What the hell are you smoking? The software is absolute gar
by athms 6y ago
>One of the reasons Calibre has become the de-facto gold standard for ebook managers
Gold standard? What the hell are you smoking? The software is absolute garbage. The reader is slow and conversion is broken. I have tried every version for years and it never improves. It can't even convert tabular data properly.
- athms 6y agoYou need to scroll using the scrollbar because scrolling with the TouchPad doesn't work. Well, it kind of works, but it takes about 20 seconds to register a scroll and ends up scrolling a few pages. Convert the PDF of "Dive Into Python 3" by Mark Pilgrim into ePub and look at the resulting mess. First page: "AreyoualreadyaPythonprogrammer?Didyoureadtheoriginal“DiveIntoPython”?Didyoubuyit on paper? What happened to the spaces? You will find numbers throughout pages, often in the middle of a page, which are the page numbers from the PDF. I made a searchable PDF of my W-2 using Abby Fine Reader and tried to convert that to ePub. The end result is a blank page. I created tabular text of my computers: CPU, and GPU, and memory. I saved as PDF and converted it to ePub; the table is gone with one entry per line. Dog shit has more value than this garbage.
- allarm 6y agoI can’t say for the other features - I’ve never used Calibre - but if spaces were lost during the pdf conversion that means that the text layer did not have the spaces. Not much you can do in this case, really.