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Originally Posted by frmald
Because you get an executable that can be easily run from the external HDD when your girlfriend's computer dies.
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That property is already supplied by the current tarball's relocatable directory tree which is likewise easily stored on an external HDD and run directly... rendering your statement invalid. This is NOT an argument in favor of an AppImage being more useful than sticking with the tarball.
In fact, there's a script in the resources/ directory, calibre-portable.sh, which exists more or less entirely due to the fact that people want to run calibre from USB sticks or external hard drives on linux.