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Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by executesorder66 »

WorldMaker wrote: post #186
executesorder66 wrote: post #181

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Calibre is cross-platform, and windows is about 40 years behind when it comes to software distribution best practices. Windows users don't realize that their OS is the problem, and expect all software developers to work around their OS's retarded idiosyncrasies.

Windows added a package manager with active auto-updates in Windows 8 called the Windows/Microsoft Store. It has supported non-sandboxed installers since a year into Windows 10 (the "Anniversary Update"). Late in Windows 10/11 they added a useful CLI tool for it ("winget") and a bit more than just the Store. Around the same time the Store also added support for "update feeds" other than ones that the Store directly m…

I'm aware of it, and it is a step in the right direction I suppose. But what's the point of a package manager, if you need another one (windows updates) to install/update other software, and yet another method (each app auto-updating itself) just to update all of the software on your system?

The whole point of a package manager is having one place to do all the updates/installations.

But this multi-billion $ company can't use it's clout and complete control over their OS to enforce one good way of installing/updating software.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by matthberg »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #65
matthberg wrote: post #4

Calibre does its job so well it's downright essential for anyone thinking about dealing with ebooks. Glad to hear that full text search is added in this version, using it with a bunch of reference books saved will be so useful. It might be worth splitting out the fiction books I have to clean up the results. Maybe it works with tag filtering, I'll have to check.

What do you use it for besides just an application that indexes books and has a reader built into it:?

I use it to load books onto a kindle and to process ebooks. I like adding metadata, making basic style tweaks or edits (like fixing OCR typoes or em/en/- mishaps), and tagging and cataloging. There's a setting to load all files plopped in a directory into the calibre system, which is both accessible through the GUI and as an author-grouped directory structure with standardized filetypes, which I find quite helpful. Also useful is the DeDRM plugin to make books bought from Amazon or Google Books accessible with any format (plus all the other benefits of DRM free media, like customizability and portability).

One aspect of working with digital books I haven't solved yet is syncing bookmarks and highlights across devices, or making them easily searchable. I'm sure there's a plugin or tool which makes it easy, yet I just haven't found it yet.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by paskozdilar »

ksquarekumar wrote: post #196
paskozdilar wrote: post #44

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Try giving out years of your labor for free, and then try not being sensitive about it...

I know quite a few open-source maintainers who have never showed any kind of hostility, even in situations which would warrant hostility.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by bheadmaster »

malshe wrote: post #176
bheadmaster wrote: post #130

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It is very difficult to communicate with Kovid when you're not a user and you've not previously praised his genius. Any kind of criticism or suggestion that isn't wrapped up in the "but your project is awesome and you're awesome!!!" wrapping-paper is met with hostility, insults and banning. It is a problem for anyone trying to communicate with him.

citation needed. You can't just make serious claims without any supporting evidence.

I'm not making serious claims, I'm sharing my experience when dealing with Kovid.

If you don't count personal experience as relevant, that's fine, but I really don't feel like digging up a bunch of github links from years ago.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by Chris2048 »

ok123456 wrote: post #153
Chris2048 wrote: post #147

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Why should he bother when it's done in bad faith.

His words:

> convinced me never to change kitty's name

He isn't refusing to respond to a bad-faith individual (no idea if all the people in the issue are from a reddit thread, or if that thread is even in bad faith) - he's refusing to ever change the name out of spite.

But it seems that you are also acting in bad-faith/trolling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32057897

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by g051051 »

jpindar wrote: post #197
g051051 wrote: post #120

I love the idea of Calibre, but I just have no idea how to use it. Whenever I try, I get stuck in some kind of confused loop where I've added things to it, but all attempts to access them just loop back to Calibre. In other words, I can't get it to let me actually read anything.

What are you trying? Do you want to read things with Calibre's built in reader, another desktop reader, sync them to a device (i.e. use the desktop GUI to copy files to a device), download them to a device via the content server or what?

I don't care how I read my stuff, I just want to read it. Calibre says it supports lots of formats, but somehow I can't find or figure out the magic inputs or config options to have it display something to me so I can read it.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by account42 »

Odd to see a "We value your privacy" popup on the website for an open source project. Both that they do feel the need to annoy their users at all when they could just not collect any data and that they resort to the insincere business speak wording. And of course none of the listed "legitimate interests" are actually legitimate.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by account42 »

paskozdilar wrote: post #203
ksquarekumar wrote: post #196

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Try giving out years of your labor for free, and then try not being sensitive about it...

I know quite a few open-source maintainers who have never showed any kind of hostility, even in situations which would warrant hostility.

That's great for those developers but you can't expect everyone to act the same way. The fact is that you have not right for ANY support - there is even a disclaimer for that in pretty much every open source license.

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by account42 »

bheadmaster wrote: post #204
malshe wrote: post #176

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citation needed. You can't just make serious claims without any supporting evidence.

I'm not making serious claims, I'm sharing my experience when dealing with Kovid. If you don't count personal experience as relevant, that's fine, but I really don't feel like digging up a bunch of github links from years ago.

You are attacking the character of someone but can't even be bothered to provide anything to back up your claims? Then why post this in the first place?

Re: New in Calibre 6.0

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Post by Chris2048 »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #192
Chris2048 wrote: post #184

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Stating that you are sorry, while continuing with the "easily offended" spiel doesn't project sincerity. Let me be clear - I don't agree with your perspective, either on how offended you think I am or should be, (or how relevant it is to this thread outside purposeful trolling, with personal attacks) or how negligible the naming issue is. The onus is on you to substantiate these judgements.

Sorry for the insincerity, genuinely. A more level-headed version of what I was trying to communicate is that I agree that you're probably not as offended as I judged you to be by your replies in this thread. But if you're not as offended as I think you are, then why is this an issue at all - either regarding the replies you're getting in this thread or Kovid's communication that you linked earlier? I just don't see…

> why is this an issue at all

b/c I dislike unsubstantiated accusations of "projection", it feels like lazy point making of "no u".

wrt Kovid's communication - it wasn't imperfect communication on Kovid's part, his intent was clear I think. And I responded to the claim that Kovid's only "crime" was some other matter, but he was involved in this flame also.

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