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Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by Chris2048 »

ok123456 wrote: post #140
Chris2048 wrote: post #128

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Calling him childish just for not wanting to deal with name drama (bikesheding) is simply projection. Just locking the thread and telling people no is the right answer.

What has reddit got to do with the issue? He also made it clear that the right move was to rename, but that he's now refusing to do so out of spite - i.e. an escalation to the drama.

> is simply projection

oh, cool, now you are insulting me. So why am I childish?

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by mitchdoogle »

akho wrote: post #37
blowski wrote: post #28

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I use it extensively for managing the books on my devices (Kobo Libre, and my wife has an old Kindle).

What’s there to manage? They are files. Read a book, copy a new book over, delete old book. A file manager does all that, and is simpler and easier.

I have an old Kindle and it's always had trouble trying to just load files over a USB connection - books show up in the wrong section, no metadata, etc.

Calibre makes it simple and the books appear properly on the device. And it can fix metadata on books downloaded from the internet. That's the main reason I use it. Add in the fact that it's a nice management tool for seeing all my books at once and I'm very pleased with it.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by ok123456 »

Chris2048 wrote: post #141
ok123456 wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calling him childish just for not wanting to deal with name drama (bikesheding) is simply projection. Just locking the thread and telling people no is the right answer.

What has reddit got to do with the issue? He also made it clear that the right move was to rename, but that he's now refusing to do so out of spite - i.e. an escalation to the drama. > is simply projection oh, cool, now you are insulting me. So why am I childish?

They were organizing a a dogpile there to comment and vote on this github issue. Why would you give in to a bully?

He should have just blocked anyone who downvoted his responses.

Also a fork of PuTTY? Who cares.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by akho »

doliveira wrote: post #92
akho wrote: post #24

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> Calibre does its job so well it's downright essential for anyone thinking about dealing with ebooks. Its “job” is not well-defined. I read electronic books almost exclusively (for prose fiction; art and equations are a different bag) since 2008 or so, and never saw any point in it beyond format conversion. It does format conversion very well. The command-line converter requires a running graphical session for some…

Yeah, I wanted to separate the conversion code into another package, but it's all so tangled

I’ve also spent an hour looking at it at one point. I’m sure it all makes sense in the overall Calibre context (formats can be plugins, so the perimeter includes stuff like customization code), but conversion is not easily extractable.

The Calibre conversion CLI tool is easy to run though. A bit unfortunate I can’t do it in an SSH session from my phone.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by mitchdoogle »

berkes wrote: post #52
addicted wrote: post #40

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Most (all commercially available?$ebook readers are not as simple as that. And a file manager doesn’t track which books of mine are synced and which are not. Calibre does. A file manager does not make it easy for me to correct the ebook’s metadata so it appears properly on the ebook reader. Calibre does. Calibre will also automatically download metadata for you from a variety of sources (with many options for the lev…

So "it's job is not well defined". It's a webserver, file manager, sync client, transcoder/converter, RSS reader, metadata manager all in one. With all possible regards and respect to the author, I find calibre a terrible mess. It does a lot of things, none of which very well. And the one thing that I want it to do, it doesn't. Not reliable or not at all. I want it to give me access to the ebooks I buy online. This i…

It's job is to manage your digital library of books. Are you upset that it has too many features? I just don't understand why you're debating.

If you don't need it, then don't use it.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by pmontra »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #104
james-redwood wrote: post #101

This comment is from the perspective of a Calibre power-user, and someone who has been involved with the software for years now. I must admit, I'm slightly shocked at some of the comments here. Kovid puts in an extraordinary amount of work (nearly 80 hours a week) into Calibre - of which most is for free, in the name of open source software. Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time on the mobileread forums will a…

I'm not aware of what he said 11 years ago. I'm more familiar with the collective dog-pile he suffered in 2017 when he said he would personally maintain Python 2 after its EOL date to avoid having to update Calibre to Python 3.[0] The internet has never forgiven him for that moment of hubris, it seems. Calibre eventually migrated to Python 3 anyway with the help of other developers. But yes, I frequent the MobileRead…

I have no idea of who Kovid is and has done but Calibre is a great piece of software. It does exactly what I need: import files into a directory and occasionally let me edit them (text and metadata.) I sync with Synchthing. I'm really happy it got full text search over all the library. I'll use that too.

BTW, if we don't have to use software written by people we don't (or won't) like when we know everything they did or said, I bet we'd have to shutdown our phones and computers and never turn them on again.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by Chris2048 »

ok123456 wrote: post #143
Chris2048 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What has reddit got to do with the issue? He also made it clear that the right move was to rename, but that he's now refusing to do so out of spite - i.e. an escalation to the drama. > is simply projection oh, cool, now you are insulting me. So why am I childish?

They were organizing a a dogpile there to comment and vote on this github issue. Why would you give in to a bully? He should have just blocked anyone who downvoted his responses. Also a fork of PuTTY? Who cares.

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Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by dizhn »

jnovek wrote: post #100
dizhn wrote: post #73

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Their github issue handling did not give me the same impression that parent has of him.

I think he’s really dedicated to making a specific thing and gets frustrated when users ask for “Swiss Army knife” features. I have empathy for that situation. That said, being unkind to otherwise civil users is never OK.

There are so many good projects out there AND with good people running them. (Not saying kitty's dev is not a good person.) I like to use free software created by people who are pleasent to deal with, because more often than with closed source software, we'll end up having to communicate for one reason or other. :) My favorite terminal chosen in this fashion AND technical merit is wezterm. It really is fantastic all around.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by gaws »

james-redwood wrote: post #101

This comment is from the perspective of a Calibre power-user, and someone who has been involved with the software for years now. I must admit, I'm slightly shocked at some of the comments here. Kovid puts in an extraordinary amount of work (nearly 80 hours a week) into Calibre - of which most is for free, in the name of open source software. Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time on the mobileread forums will a…

> The only close competitor is Foliate

Only as a reader. For everything else? Not at all.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by H12 »

james-redwood wrote: post #101

This comment is from the perspective of a Calibre power-user, and someone who has been involved with the software for years now. I must admit, I'm slightly shocked at some of the comments here. Kovid puts in an extraordinary amount of work (nearly 80 hours a week) into Calibre - of which most is for free, in the name of open source software. Anyone who has spent a decent amount of time on the mobileread forums will a…

Not to mention Kovid is also the developer of the excellent kitty terminal.
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