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Hitch · 04-25-2011, 03:23 AM

Yes, and we're on *other* companies' lists, as well. Not singularly Amazon's. Moreover, I'm not PROMOTING MobiPocketCreator; the fact that you seem to have it envisioned as some type of "Amazon product" competing with Calibre shows just how much you do not understand. It's not "competing;" it hasn't been updated in YEARS, literally (what, 3? 4 years now?)...Amazon isn't updating it. Amazon is not "competing with" Cailbre. I mean, honestly, are you hanging around with dd on that list, to come up with this stuff?

Moreover, I don't consider Calibre to be a MBPCreator competitor, in any sense of the word. They don't do the same things; each does their own thing quite well. Nor did I recommend to Kovid that he "fix" Calibre; I reported the problem to him, which seemed courteous, since when I asked him about it, he was unaware of it. The idea that I'm running around trying to squelch Calibre as some nefarious Amazonian plot is freaking hilarious.

I mean: feed your Holmesian deductive powers a question: since I produce books professionally, as a commercial venture, exactly WHY would I give a rat's ass about WHICH DIY product somebody uses to produce their own ebooks? If my motives were so nefarious, why wouldn't I just sit there and let some poor schmuck produce his book with the then-Calibre, so that when it went wrong, he'd have to come to ME or another professional converter? Why warn him in advance that it wouldn't work properly? Yes, you're right. I'm an evil genius, obviously, telling them to use MBPCreator so it would work out okay.

And do you know WHY I mention that we're busy? Because, ironically, I feel badly when someone posts a question to me and I don't notice it for 4 or 5 days, because I don't check "watch this" or whatever, because we ARE busy. Because there is so much bad advice there. But, take heart--people like YOU have convinced me that answering posts there IS an incredibly crappy, thankless idea, so as I said: knock yourself out. I'm now genuinely sorry I've wasted my time over there at all.

Hitch

04-25-2011, 03:23 AM	#37
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	Yes, and we're on other companies' lists, as well. Not singularly Amazon's. Moreover, I'm not PROMOTING MobiPocketCreator; the fact that you seem to have it envisioned as some type of "Amazon product" competing with Calibre shows just how much you do not understand. It's not "competing;" it hasn't been updated in YEARS, literally (what, 3? 4 years now?)...Amazon isn't updating it. Amazon is not "competing with" Cailbre. I mean, honestly, are you hanging around with dd on that list, to come up with this stuff? Moreover, I don't consider Calibre to be a MBPCreator competitor, in any sense of the word. They don't do the same things; each does their own thing quite well. Nor did I recommend to Kovid that he "fix" Calibre; I reported the problem to him, which seemed courteous, since when I asked him about it, he was unaware of it. The idea that I'm running around trying to squelch Calibre as some nefarious Amazonian plot is freaking hilarious. I mean: feed your Holmesian deductive powers a question: since I produce books professionally, as a commercial venture, exactly WHY would I give a rat's ass about WHICH DIY product somebody uses to produce their own ebooks? If my motives were so nefarious, why wouldn't I just sit there and let some poor schmuck produce his book with the then-Calibre, so that when it went wrong, he'd have to come to ME or another professional converter? Why warn him in advance that it wouldn't work properly? Yes, you're right. I'm an evil genius, obviously, telling them to use MBPCreator so it would work out okay. And do you know WHY I mention that we're busy? Because, ironically, I feel badly when someone posts a question to me and I don't notice it for 4 or 5 days, because I don't check "watch this" or whatever, because we ARE busy. Because there is so much bad advice there. But, take heart--people like YOU have convinced me that answering posts there IS an incredibly crappy, thankless idea, so as I said: knock yourself out. I'm now genuinely sorry I've wasted my time over there at all. Hitch