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Old 01-18-2011, 03:30 PM   #18
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New users can contribute a surprising amount if they want to put in the effort! New users are the ones who are coming to Calibre without too many pre-conceptions and assumptions about how Calibre works. This is a viewpoint that experienced users can find it hard to appreciate.

I think that if a user hase not found an answer that they understand in the manual, then it is perfectly correct to start asking questions here. However when such a user finally gets an answer that works and they believe they understand it, what they can at that point do is attempt to write up the problem in such a way that if they had found the problem description in the manual it would have avoided the original question being asked.

The proposed new text for inclusion in the manual can then either be raised in a thread for discussion or submitted for vetting. I believe that Kovid will vet everything that makes it into the manual, so any inaccuracies or misconceptions in the write-up should get picked up at that point.

Sometimes the contribution can be even simpler - just suggestions on how to organise existing material to make it easier to find for the inexperienced user.
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