[dewey]

The idea is good and I'm always looking forward to the day where there's a good alternative to Calibre.

Unfortunately the design is giving me a very strong Calibre vibe.

Some suggestions that I think don't look good on top of what the other people already said:

- 3 different fonts, unify it to use one (and none of them should be Papyrus)

- The book covers are the main part of your app, so they should stand out by either using the book cover, or a place holder which the book title being presented in a way that doesn't result in 5 line breaks

[donio]

Calibre is not bad if you stick to the CLI utilities and avoid the GUI. ebook-convert in particular is pretty much all I need from Calibre. I normally run it with the following options:

  ebook-convert input.someformat output.mobi --remove-paragraph-spacing --change-justification=justify --enable-heuristics --unsmarten-punctuation

(It's picky about the ordering of the input/output vs the flags)

[dewey]

I usually download some additional metadata and then send it to my Kindle via the "Mail to Kindle" Mail address, I could probably script that part easily but for the few times I use it right now I'll just have to stick to the GUI.

[benologist]

There's a project called COPS which adds a small web site to your Calibre library so you open it in the Kindle browser - it's pretty convenient:

https://github.com/seblucas/cops

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