My observations about gui things I'd like to see in calibre (or are already there but I've missed, sorry about that) are simply mild suggestions, not criticisms, from the pov of a gui-comfortable-user rather than my alternate pov of currently-uncomfortable-sometime-past-programmer. I sympathize with them because I am like that too after years of being retired and spoiled and coddled by Apple and Macs. I assume there are lots of calibre users who are comfortable in gui but not in command line or scripting. Yes I'm starting to learn python but that will be quite awhile. Yes I can script but it takes me awhile since I've been out of the game for years. Sometimes it seems to me that calibre developers and powerusers assume it's easy for everybody to knock out a script in 30 seconds to accomplish something or use command line likewise. I appreciate calibre and especially calibre's gui. I do not mean to annoy calibre developers or power users. Let me try to clarify where I'm coming from. You can reorder by dragging the columns in the How did I miss didn't mean to be snappish in my reply earlier. Meanwhile, in case anyone's interested in looking at Readerware and comparing apples and oranges, that's what I found. Readerware may have other potentially useful features or incredibly bad things I missed. There are lots of things in the gui and cataloging arenas calibre does better than Readerware. I will when I learn enough Python, which I'm working on. Yes, developers, I know: if I want calibre to do something, write calibre plugins myself. Clicking on items in other fields does other things depending on which field. Clicking title in the title field results in search and display of all duplicates. Clicking author in the author field results in search and display of all titles in db by that author. Column-dragging in the gui to re-order them.ĩ. Number of pages is possibly useful for pBook owners though I don't care about that either.Ĩ. I don't use or care about LCCN and Dewey but other people might. Fields include, among the usual: Copyright_date (in addition to Published_date), Read or not, number of Pages, LCCN, Dewey. Auto-load books purchased from vendors (e.g., it obtains metadata from vendors for the books I've bought there. (Amazon, B&N, many others, then merge those various metadata's.)Ħ. Auto-metadata-grab from multiple pBook vendors based on ISBN. For new pBooks, it'd be nice to scan directly into an automatic calibre add_empty_book and metadata grab based on the scanned ISBN.)ĥ. For my existing pLibrary, I can automate calibredb add_empty_book with formulas from existing pBook spreadsheet pasted into OS command line, or a script to do all that. (If I use calibre for also tracking my pBooks, I've got to get metadata for 2000+ books into empty records somehow, then also for any new pBooks I buy. Scan ISBN of pBooks for auto metadata grab with cuecat or some other barcode scanner. (But in Readerware the fields in the import csv have to be in the exact order Readerware wants them in, even the fields in Readerware that don't exist previously in your csv, which it doesn't tell you in advance.)Ĥ. Export metadata as csv or other filetypes, allows user-chosen and user-orderable columns.ģ. Report Print only used author, title, isbn, estimated_value, not user-selectable fields.) Ģ. (But I could only select columns for printing csv by hiding the ones I didn't want printed, which was clunky. Report Print in basic table in html, or in other formats. Print, with choice of all or choice of search results in the gui window, in csv. Readerware does have some nice features in the cataloging and gui arenas that the calibre community might want to consider (idly) for (potential) eventual inclusion of similar functionality in calibre.ġ.
So Readerware is not presently a competitor with calibre. Calibre focuses on eBook cataloging, eBook device management, and eBook format conversions while Readerware focuses on pBook cataloging for single users, and pBook cataloging and inventory for libraries and vendors.
It's a pBook cataloging application available for Windows, Linux, and Mac.Ĭalibre and Readerware can't really be compared because they're apples and oranges. I downloaded Readerware for free-30-day-evaluation.
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