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Sylver · 01-27-2011, 11:48 PM

Hi, I was wondering if there is some kind of self explanatory rating graph/chart about each version's stability for casual Calibre users like me. I use Calibre mostly to convert mobi, pdf and text files to epub, and don't care much about e-reader specific sideloading/library features, at least not so much as tp care about the quality of the conversion. I honestly feel a little bit lost and overwhelmed reading the change log. And a glance at the posts here suggests various issues (author name field, etc) with 0.7.42 and even more issues with 0.7.40. I personally had issues with 0.7.38 (it did not convert the images in my mobi file to epub) and had to settle down with 0.7.33. I see on the sourceforge downloading page, there are some interesting statistics, in the most recent past week version 0.7.28 got more than 1300 downloads while versions 0.7.29 to 0.7.38 got either single or double digit downloads. I was wondering does that mean people have more confidence in the stability of version 0.7.28? I don't want to lag too many versions behind, but I am not too risk-taking either. As I am converting a lot of books now and hate the idea of later finding any hidden bugs (be it lost images, mis-linked notes or misplaced chapter index, or misspelled author name) and having to redo all the work again, is there a stability rating statistics anywhere that a lazy man like me can refer to? Or if the weekly downloads is the only indication so far? Many thanks. An related question: do you all jump to the latest version every time it comes out and why?

01-27-2011, 11:48 PM	#1
Sylver Addict Posts: 234 Karma: 40 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: The Nook, iPad	Stability rating for each version? Hi, I was wondering if there is some kind of self explanatory rating graph/chart about each version's stability for casual Calibre users like me. I use Calibre mostly to convert mobi, pdf and text files to epub, and don't care much about e-reader specific sideloading/library features, at least not so much as tp care about the quality of the conversion. I honestly feel a little bit lost and overwhelmed reading the change log. And a glance at the posts here suggests various issues (author name field, etc) with 0.7.42 and even more issues with 0.7.40. I personally had issues with 0.7.38 (it did not convert the images in my mobi file to epub) and had to settle down with 0.7.33. I see on the sourceforge downloading page, there are some interesting statistics, in the most recent past week version 0.7.28 got more than 1300 downloads while versions 0.7.29 to 0.7.38 got either single or double digit downloads. I was wondering does that mean people have more confidence in the stability of version 0.7.28? I don't want to lag too many versions behind, but I am not too risk-taking either. As I am converting a lot of books now and hate the idea of later finding any hidden bugs (be it lost images, mis-linked notes or misplaced chapter index, or misspelled author name) and having to redo all the work again, is there a stability rating statistics anywhere that a lazy man like me can refer to? Or if the weekly downloads is the only indication so far? Many thanks. An related question: do you all jump to the latest version every time it comes out and why?