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minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 年前I also dropped Calibre recently due to it just not fulfilling its promise. When Dropbox suddenly crippled my account several years ago, I moved everything to a much better Nextcloud instance and haven’t looked back.
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前They work fine on my devices, but everyone will have different preferences.
minus-squareapplejacks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 年前The issue is that text cannot reflow, so if a given page has a large amount of text on it, you’re going to have to manually zoom into and scroll back and forth.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前Why were you unhappy with calibre? I don’t use the server part of it and only start it when I want to copy books to my e-reader.
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 年前The interface is clunky and it generally just doesn’t work very well for me.
minus-squareCaptObvious@literature.cafelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 年前I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.
I also dropped Calibre recently due to it just not fulfilling its promise.
When Dropbox suddenly crippled my account several years ago, I moved everything to a much better Nextcloud instance and haven’t looked back.
what did you switch to over calibre?
I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.
PDF is so much worse on eReaders…
They work fine on my devices, but everyone will have different preferences.
The issue is that text cannot reflow, so if a given page has a large amount of text on it, you’re going to have to manually zoom into and scroll back and forth.
Why were you unhappy with calibre? I don’t use the server part of it and only start it when I want to copy books to my e-reader.
The interface is clunky and it generally just doesn’t work very well for me.
What did you go to from calibre?
I’ve begun just using PDFs instead.