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Originally Posted by mobama
Sure, as soon as you point out the conflicting things. The way your post is now, I cannot make head or tails of it.
I am against overly warm recommendations of Calibre. You claim it solves problems, specifically problems you think I have with my ereading habits. Well, I used to have an urge once upon a time to convert some pdf files to html or hopefully epub, and I heard Calibre was awesome at it. I tried it and it failed just like every other tool. There's no way to convert a pdf safely without arduous post-processing. So I have learned to live without converting pdf files. I just read them.
Calibre may come handy when removing DRM, but I seriously do not see any point at converting files. And I never needed to remove DRm, so I am living a happy life without Calibre.
Anything conflicting in this?
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Obviously your reading habits differ from the majority here, if most of your reading material is in pdf format and you never read any ebooks from major publishers. I guess Calibre is not necessary for you, but it's necessary for anyone who buys from Kobo, Google, Amazon etc and wants to back up their purchases, even if they never convert them. Most people do read books from the big publishers, even if you never do.
Personally, I read pdfs rarely and certainly not on any of my eink readers. That's a lousy experience, to put it mildly. And as most of my reading material consists of books by modern authors, most of my books had DRM originally. So Calibre is pretty important to me.