How do you plan to respond to the change? You can find more details on that over on MobileRead. Some reverted to an older version of calibre, but others instead installed a second (and older) copy of calibre, and hanged various settings so that ebooks were opened using the older calibre’s ebook veiwer. I have no issue with the small amount of margins taken up by the left and top toolbars–and they are immediately accessible.Ī number of users are so unhappy that they found a way to circumvent the changes. I miss the page numbers (rather than a %), the easy fast search for a dictiorary or web search, and the quick click for changing font sizes.

I was catching up on new discussion threads over on MobileRead this morning when I found multiple complaints in the calibre forum about the new app. Nevertheless, in spite of the improvements, users are not happy with the changes to the interface. (Note: that applies to the metadata, not the contents of a book, so it’s really not a big deal.)

This makes it faster and less resource intensive, however it supports less HTML and CSS, which means if you used advanced styling in your comments it may not fully work'. The new viewer is reportedly faster, but that comes with a trade off the footnotes for the changelog mention that the new viewer might break any fancy formatting notes or comments in your metadata: 'The Book details panel now no longer uses a full browser engine for rendering.

Calibre ebook reader book format