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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
It's a very small point, but the name of the software in question is Calibre, not Caliber.
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Actually, the name is "calibre". It is explicitly lower case.
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At first, I thought it was a play on "libre" as in "free" and possibly "libris" as in "book" but then realized it was probably just because the creator comes from India, and Indian English favors BrEng spellings by and large. Whatever the reason, spelling it the way the creator does seems like a courtesy well-earned
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As to where the name came from, the
calibre history page has:
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As my e-book collection grew, I realized that managing it was quickly becoming unwieldy, so I decided to write a graphical interface to libprs500 to make it easier. This became calibre, in its present form, as a comprehensive e-book management tool. libprs500 was renamed to calibre in mid-2008. The name calibre was chosen by my wife, Krittika. The libre in calibre stands for freedom, indicating that calibre is a free and open source product, modifiable by all. Nonetheless, calibre should be pronounced as cali-ber, not ca-libre.
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