07-13-2013, 07:53 AM | #76 | ||
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Go to the Preferences, Plugins, Device Interface Plugins and disable all the plugins you see there. I asked our local Calibre gurus some time ago, how to prevent Calibre from connecting to my reader every time I connect it and somebody pointed me there. I was very happy ... You see, I like to organize books on my reader the way *I* like it, using custom templates and 'save to disk'. I know, I know there are plugboards that I could use when connecting to device that haven't fully utilized yet. By the way, have a look at plugins. If you disable the html2zip plugin, Calibre will not try to convert a single html file to a html.zip file when adding a book. Then there are interesting plugins you can istall. Calibre is *very* modular, so you can tweak, enable, disable or easily change [by editing a python script for plugin somewhere] quite a few things. |
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07-13-2013, 08:18 AM | #77 | |
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Turn the idea on its head - link calibres folder schema into your folder schema. BR |
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I have 2112 books on my Android tablet and have only a vague idea of the file structure they are in. I use Calibre Companion to quickly find and launch (using the reader app of my choosing) any book in my library. Much easier than stumbling through a file structure on the small screen device. ** The rest of this post is Off Topic ** ...... ...... ...... Quote:
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07-13-2013, 03:54 PM | #79 | |
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"A monopoly is an enterprise that is the only seller of a good or service." Calibre is a monopoly if and only if it is the only product of its kind available. If there were any other products available, it wouldn't really be a monopoly. Also, a monopoly is a monopoly irrespective of the way the enterprise achieve or maintain it (i.e. their competitive attitude/practices). So irrespective of the good/bad intentions or encouragement of its developers for forking/developing alternative products, calibre is still a monopoly. And to all those who said "No one is forcing you to use calibre", well (unfortunately) a monopoly 'effectively' does just that. They control the market and they detect the terms, irrespective of market sentiments. Unless and until an alternative product comes into the picture, no one really knows how bad the market needs really are. |
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07-13-2013, 05:16 PM | #80 |
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Since calibre/Kovid isn't a seller of a good or service, but give calibre away freely, and even allow anyone to also copy and modify calbre and give it again, can that definition of monopoly really be said to be relevant?
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07-13-2013, 07:15 PM | #81 | |
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The fact that a product has a dominant position an open market does not make it a monopoly, and achieving market dominance by offering a superior product and/or services is not a crime or malfeasance. Indeed it is a cornerstone of capitalism and free markets. And it's those forces that have lifted more people out of poverty in the last 25 years than anything in the prior 5,000 years. However, you are also free make a complaint to Eric Holder at the US DoJ or Joaquín Almunia at the EUC or the anti-trust authorities in a country or province of your choosing - good luck with that; watch out for the laws regarding making frivolous claims. BR My preferred Definition of a Monopoly Last edited by BetterRed; 07-14-2013 at 01:28 AM. Reason: fix link |
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Calibre has complete control of the market and it is a monopoly in every sense of the word. Last edited by iamosam; 07-14-2013 at 03:46 AM. |
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07-14-2013, 05:07 AM | #85 |
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Re monopoly: 1. Calibre is a product ("good or service" in economic terms), not a provider of a product. There is no definition of monopoly that I know of where the good or service is the monopoly. It is the provider of the good or service that is the monopolist, having the monopoly on the good or service being provided. 2. Given the above, one must argue that Kovid is a monopolist. That would be fallacious, because to be a monopolist he must have exclusive control over the product (amongst other things), and he does not because he voluntarily gave it away. Anyone who wants to "produce" and "distribute" the "calibre product" is free to do so. Further, such a person can distribute it with or without modification and with or without the calibre name, meaning that the only barriers to entry are getting known and accepting the GPL license. 3. Calibre is not alone in the ebook management market. Some competing products were provided above. I suspect that neither Apple nor Amazon would agree that calibre has a monopoly on ebook management software, and their millions of users who have no idea that calibre exists would agree. |
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Do be honest I did try to find an other software, couldn't find anything worthwhile, at least on Linux.
If someone have clues there, i'll gladly take them. |
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Wow, what a trollolicious thread!
What I don't understand is the attitude of "I don't like this, YOU should fix it and make it work the way I want it to" but they won't lift a finger to help, either programming or money wise... |
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For once we where able to have some real discussion en the topic. Please...
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07-14-2013, 09:40 AM | #89 | |
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1) Make new dir 2) Hardlink file, which now exists simultaneously in two places 3) Delete original dir If you want to have the same book in two places, do the same: make a hardlink to the book from the new, better place (on the same partition). Even better: use inotify to automatically create the hardlinks whenever something changes in the calibre dir. Now of course, your OS might not have either hardlinks or inotify, but that's what I would do if I did care about the looks of the database. |
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I have no technical, emotional, philosophical or ideological hangups about accessing the files via means other than the Calibre GUI in the Calibre folder hierarchy as it exists. And I have no problems ignoring those who say it shouldn't be done - although I do sometimes get a sore tongue, from biting it The points I made about symlinks were in response to kacir's suggestion that Calibre could have symlinks to the books in the users preferred folder structure. And when I wrote in a later post than the one you quoted... Quote:
I'm not sure that Calibre data is 'busy' enough to warrant the use of iNotify, besides if I were to use such a scheme I would prefer to control the synchronisation on the basis of a 'logical transaction' rather than 'file system events' - eg I have a sequence of operations that I often perform
Would I really want all those micro changes being reflected in the 'other' folder, I don't think so. I would want to click a Commit button after the last step. Commit would trash whatever is in the 'other' folder and create a fresh set of hardlinks in the 'other' folder, and that's not as easy as it sounds either. Why 'trash' because a hardlink in the recycle bin will still show up in the file reference count - a reference count of 3 would confuse me. But for me its all moot anyway, as I'm happy to use Calibre's folder structure as it is, and in whatever way I choose to do so BR PS - a lot of people keep their libraries on FAT thumbs, no hardlinks on FAT thumbs Last edited by BetterRed; 07-14-2013 at 08:58 PM. |
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