If you click it you can choose a pretty cover grid view and hide both the book info and tag browser. If you were wondering how to change the layout there is a button on the bottom right that says 'layout' alongside a colorful icon. The default layout has a toolbar, search bar, list of books, info about the selected book, and a tag/author/series etc browser toolbar. tool bars by default has both icons AND text and you can change the icons if you want something that looks more 'modern' You can add or remove functions to right click menu or tool bars Modern usually is synonymous with an oversimplified interface which shoves much functionality into a junk drawer and makes it easy to do some subset of easy things and hard to do anything else.Īlthough quite usable out of the box the calibre UI is also very customizable and trivial to figure out how to customize

Perhaps the worst reason to make a different piece of software.

In open source software users are finite but on average worthless except insofar as they constitute a funnel whereby some microscopic portion may in some instances become contributors but more often than not that funnel is virtually non-existent with contributions coming from the same small cadre of developers. This is true in a commercial product when there are a finite number of buyers whose money in turn funds a finite number of merchants efforts to bring a product to market. This contains the misunderstanding that merely by existing calibre 'uses up' something like oxygen.

But it's got such market and mindshare for open source e-reader software that there hasn't been much room for other folks to try something different.

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