Not really the issue you guys are discussing, but this article is about improving the UI and states the author is working on improving the UI http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/05/making-calibre-look-nicer/ Larry On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > The ugly directory was actually, most likely, for a single book. Calibre > defaults to using your home directory as the "library" directory and uses a > fairly complex, but Windows-friendly, filename and directory structure below > that. > It's a bad interface decision, but Calibre has absolutely horrible UI > structure and design, so that's not surprising. > > I like the *capability* of Calibre, I just wish someone would take the same > capabilities and produce a decent UI for it. > > On 05/15/2011 11:08 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote: > > > > Thanks Joseph. > > > > I finally found that calibre does allow one to create new > > (actually multiple) library/directories; and, in fact, it > > allows creating one with a "switch" option to automatically > > move all books into that newly created one. So, I was able to > > create one with everything moved into that new one and then > > just delete the one that calibre had automatically created > > initially with that confounded file/directory name with caps > > and spaces in the name. Why would they have done that? > > > > Anyway, the problem is now solved. > > > > Thanks again. > > > > > >> The Library button (probably reads something like "35 books") controls > >> this. Click that button and enter a different directory. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson