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Old 07-29-2014, 02:44 AM   #53
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
Yes, I'll tell my mother: You can build it yourself! And how will you build it, if you don't have the tools? If a version gets discarded, don't you think the tools will get discarded as well?

And there are now plenty of OS's that are used by a very large group of people that are not supported by Calibre. I know people who no longer own a windows/linux/MacOS machine, but only an Android, Ios, or RT tablet. I haven't seen a Calibre version for those OS's... And they've been around for a while already.
Why does your mother need to build python2 for linux? And if she were using linux, wouldn't she know this stuff?

Now, calibre might be wanted/needed, but as I said in the second part of the post you partially quoted, Kovid already did that build for you (it's how he distributes it in the first place) and that will still be around. If his website goes down, there are still several mirrors. Like sourceforge, or googlecode (hasn't been updated since Kovid ditched it around 0.9.36).

As far as tablets go -- that is a rather unfair objection. How will you edit an EPUB on them, either?
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