with my file manager Total Commander, comic book reader software or music player/manager for audio books. I would like to be able to access my ebooks from other programs, e.g. It is always argued that you do everything with your ebooks from Caliber anyway. It works with almost all music management programs, which usually have to deal with a far larger number of files. It must be completely unimportant for a modern database software where the individual data files are stored on the hard drive.
The desire to preserve the existing file structure is repeatedly ridiculed by Calibre fans and defended with sometimes absurd arguments. Especially it's weird in case with audio books, that have considerable size. When it creates an electronic library, the book files are moved to calibre's folder. The second issue with Calibre is Calibre's practice of transforming my library structure in windows folders. Biographical data and pictures of authors and publishers can also be saved in the database. It works flawlessly, rapidly imports book data, searches for a title, shows the complete database with pictures and other relevant data. Alfa may have fewer features, but I find pure ebook management to be much more intuitive to use. When I'm looking for a particular function, I often don't know whether it doesn't exist, I just can't find it, or whether I need to install a plugin for it. I find the user interface of Caliber ugly and overloaded. So the developer has to build the software different systems and of course this imposes limitations on the variety of tools they can use. The point is that Calibre is developed for multi platform. The first advantage of Alfa is the much nicer and more intuitive user interface. But there are also a lot of things that I don't like that much, which is why I looked for an alternative like Alfa. Nobody denies that Calibre has many advantages: multi platform, open source, free, many plugins. I also find it not expedient if one cites the admittedly not very useful 3D view as evidence in order to discredit alfa ebook manager.
I am always amazed that for some it is a downright insult to majesty if you use a tool other than calibre for ebook management.
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