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Old 08-31-2018, 05:32 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger View Post
The program itself works, and many plugins as well. ...

Proprietary software per se is not even the real problem, unless your philosophy does not make any exceptions allowing installation of non-free on principle. What works, works rather well, but is surely not equally easy to setup. Also depending on your distro your are limited in which version of calibre is readily available in the repository with all dependencies already solved and working.
I guess I've lucked out as the Kindle and Kobo (Obok) DeDRM plugins work in Linux and that's all I use (this has just recently changed for Obok, I believe). As for my distro repositories, if I depended on them for Linux Mint Mate 17.1, I would be stuck at Calibre 1.25. Fortunately Kovid Goyal makes it extremely easy to install the newest version on any Linux distribution — just copy and paste and run a script (or a couple scripts if you need to add dependencies) in the Terminal. So, even though Linux Mint Mate 17.1 came out in June, 2014, I'm currently running the newest version of Calibre (3.30.0). Calibre is a fantastic application.

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