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Originally Posted by jerryflattum
Meanwhile designers, services, etc., are charging 100s if not 1000s to do what Calibre and so many other applications do.
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I have here Adobe Photoshop CS5. Do you think the difference between me and some random dude off the street, when it comes to website design, is because of Photoshop?
It isn't. I can do more with MS Paint than a novice can do with Photoshop. I can do more with Notepad than someone who thinks website design is all about picking the right WordPress template can do with Dreamweaver. I don't charge for doing what Dreamweaver does; I charge for knowing what to do.
And, likewise, that Super Bowl commercial crew I referred to in my last post could undoubtedly make a better commercial with my little Flip camcorder than I could make with with their tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of gear. They know how it's supposed to work; they've spent years learning that. I don't. And by the time I learned, they would have learned even more. If you want a commercial made, hire them. They cost more per hour than someone with a pocket camcorder, even if
you provide the equipment. They're charging for their expertise.
Calibre is awesome. (by the way, don't "work something out"; send Kovid a donation, for the love of Mike) Sigil (next forum down) is pretty cool, too. But all the programs in the world can't give you knowledge you don't have. There's only one way to get that, and it isn't easy.
P.S.
As proof that the tools are trivial compared to the expertise, it was just pointed out to me that Einstein used a piece of chalk and a blackboard.
Tools are amplifiers.