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- <h1 class="calibre1" id="gui">The Main Library Window, aka the GUI</h1>
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- <p class="calibre2">Once the welcome wizard finishes you will be presented with the main
- application window. There are a few components I would like to bring to your
- attention. The central piece is the main book list. This takes up the
- majority of the window and displays the books in a table. Just above the
- main book list you will see the search area (more on this later) and above
- that, a white box with a Library icon. When you connect a supported e-book
- reader a Reader icon will appear next to the Library icon. You can switch
- between viewing books in your Library and books on your e-book reader by
- clicking on their respective icons.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">The bar across the bottom of the window shows details about the currently
- selected book, including its cover. If you click anywhere in the detail area
- (including on the book cover) another window will open exposing more
- information about the book.</p>
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- <p class="calibre2">At the bottom right of the detail area are three icons:</p>
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- <li class="calibre4">The curved arrow activates the cover flow view. Cover flow displays
- the book covers in a fashion similar to how a juke box lays out albums.
- The selected book is in the center while the neighboring covers are shown
- at an angle. You can navigate though the book covers with the left and
- right arrow keys on your keyboard. Click the curved arrow icon again to
- hide the cover flow view.</li>
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- <li class="calibre4">The luggage tag icon activates the tag browser view. More on this
- later.</li>
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- <li class="calibre4">The spinning progress icon labeled 'Jobs:' is one of the most
- important pieces of the interface. Whenever calibre is working on
- something (conversion, sending books to the reader, downloading news,
- etc.) this icon will spin, and the number next to jobs will display the
- number of jobs (activities) calibre is working on. You can click the icon
- to expose more detail about the jobs in progress.</li>
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