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Calibre is a multi-platform alternative to Bibdesk, the UI is ugly but it's very usable.
by radicalbyte 13y ago
Calibre is a multi-platform alternative to Bibdesk, the UI is ugly but it's very usable.
- dfc 13y agoI am sorry but Calibre and Bibdesk are completely different programs. I have used both programs and I am surprised you would say that calibre is an alternative to bibdesk. Calibre's focus is ebooks and bibdesk's focus is bibliographic information. The only possible overlap is that they both create a directory with electronic reading material. In order to get calibre to organize a directory like bibdesk (ie configured by author/journal/year) you have to jump through a million hoops and it requires duplicating your library. Have you ever used Bibdesk? I grudgingly use calibre for epub/mobi conversion. Calibre's UI is ugly and it is not very usable: there are three separate pairs of arrows on the ebook preview screen! How would you decide which pair is for pgup/pgdn? And what would a user expect the use is for other two sets?