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Originally Posted by Faterson
I simply no longer find it very useful/necessary.  I organize my book collections in Drobpox folders, and that suffices me. I can also load them straight from Dropbox to my 8+ reading devices (including the e-ink PocketBook), so it's no longer necessary for me to use Calibre for any operation, really. (Also, I use several Windows computers, and Calibre used to act up occasionally, when I tried to keep its database in sync across multiple Windows computers, using Dropbox. It just no longer seemed worth the bother for me...) |
I keep most of my stuff in Dropbox as well, including my ebook collection. But I couldn't manage without Calibre, having tens of thousands of ebooks. Folder management isn't sufficient for me. I load my Kobos from Calibre, even though the Sage has Dropbox support (which I've used a couple of times, perhaps). Calibre is just faster and easier, with its automatic metadata and collection management for Kobos. But yeah, it takes a lot of time to get the metadata right in the first place.
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Makes perfect sense, if you think about it. People enjoy looking at beautiful things more than they enjoy looking at dull and boring things. Because I find background textures more beautiful to look at than looking at dull and boring solid-color backgrounds (which can be downright sleep-inducing, if truth be told), then this motivates me to read more and longer – because who wouldn't want to prolong his or her experience of looking at something that's beautiful? 
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Oh, I get it. I'm a wallpaper nut - I've collected thousands of different wallpapers for my tablets and computers, which I switch frequently.
Fancy background just isn't something I need for book reading, but then I read most of the time on eink, of course.