My sincerest apologies to Calibre purists, but Calibre’s default UI is ugly—functional, but 🤮. There, I said it. Come at me.😤
BUT. 👀
The software is uhmazing! Because after messing around a bit, here’s the look I ended up with:
I know right! It’s so good you can’t ignore it.
I spent an hour scrolling through preferences, tweaking a bunch of stuff: fonts, icons, layout, you name it!
I think it turned out really nice.
With citations in the E-book Viewer, I can copy and paste annotations into Obsidian.
This fits my desired workflow: (1) Read and annotate books outside Obsidian (to lower vault size), (2) Import highlights from the said books into Obsidian with minimal friction, and (3) Link to the original source for context.
Here’s what that looks like:
Citation Templates
Highlights without notes
>*"{text}"* [↗](calibre://view-book/random_string_thingy)
Highlights with notes
>*"{text}"* [↗](calibre://view-book/random_string_thingy)
%%
{notes}
%%
Obsidian’s Calibre Plugin is another option to import annotations. The major downside to that is, links don’t redirect to Calibre but to the content server.