<story><title>Calibre – E-Book Management</title><url>https://calibre-ebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>&amp;gt; Compared to modern UI&amp;#x2F;UX which just slaps me with how stupid it thinks I am&lt;p&gt;Because most average users of any software absolutely fall in that bucket. My mom can use the Facebook app on her phone just fine, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even dare to suggest that she try to convert an eBook on Calibre and transfer it to her Kindle.</text></item><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>Calibre&amp;#x27;s UI is an artifact from a superior and more civilized time, IMHO&lt;p&gt;Extremely functional and just a little bit incomprehensible. Compared to modern UI&amp;#x2F;UX which just slaps me with how stupid it thinks I am</text></item><item><author>mattkevan</author><text>Calibre is great. There’s a real lack of good quality ebook software and Calibre is an essential do-everything toolkit.&lt;p&gt;The interface, however, is like some incredible piece of outsider art, gloriously free of best practice, convention or accepted wisdom.&lt;p&gt;As a UX designer it gave me some trouble at first, but now I’ve genuinely come to appreciate it. There’s no way the interface could be ‘improved’ by conventional standards of aesthetics or usability without losing the thing that makes it special in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pfranz</author><text>I earnestly think it&amp;#x27;s motivation and there&amp;#x27;s this societal pressure that software &amp;quot;is too hard.&amp;quot; Just like your mom can use the Facebook app just fine. I have trouble using it, I&amp;#x27;m worried anything I type into a box will turn into a public post with notifications going into everyone&amp;#x27;s inbox, and I&amp;#x27;ve also mostly avoided it for over a decade. My grandmother over a decade ago figured out how to buy a webcam, install it, and use the software when grand kids were born.</text></comment>
<story><title>Calibre – E-Book Management</title><url>https://calibre-ebook.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>paxys</author><text>&amp;gt; Compared to modern UI&amp;#x2F;UX which just slaps me with how stupid it thinks I am&lt;p&gt;Because most average users of any software absolutely fall in that bucket. My mom can use the Facebook app on her phone just fine, but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even dare to suggest that she try to convert an eBook on Calibre and transfer it to her Kindle.</text></item><item><author>tomc1985</author><text>Calibre&amp;#x27;s UI is an artifact from a superior and more civilized time, IMHO&lt;p&gt;Extremely functional and just a little bit incomprehensible. Compared to modern UI&amp;#x2F;UX which just slaps me with how stupid it thinks I am</text></item><item><author>mattkevan</author><text>Calibre is great. There’s a real lack of good quality ebook software and Calibre is an essential do-everything toolkit.&lt;p&gt;The interface, however, is like some incredible piece of outsider art, gloriously free of best practice, convention or accepted wisdom.&lt;p&gt;As a UX designer it gave me some trouble at first, but now I’ve genuinely come to appreciate it. There’s no way the interface could be ‘improved’ by conventional standards of aesthetics or usability without losing the thing that makes it special in the first place.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TeMPOraL</author><text>And yet, Facebook app is actually more complex (and arguably, chaotic and ever changing) UI - but she handles it fine. So does everyone.</text></comment>