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Old 02-15-2009, 07:08 AM   #16
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Not until The Sun publishes his nude photos, or some interesting ... aehm ... "story" on the front page. (**)
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(**) No Krittika Goyal, that was NOT a request for you, even if you want to be married to a celebrity very much ;-)
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Old 02-15-2009, 08:05 AM   #17
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Welcome to the forum, Krittika, and thank you for the story about Calibre's name.
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Old 02-15-2009, 01:57 PM   #18
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Converter And LIBRary for Ebooks
Other factors making the name appropriate:
Kovid is a grad student at CALtech. That is where CALIBRE was conceived.
Kovid's Zodiac sign is LIBRa.
Calibre means degree or grade of excellence and CALIBRE is a high calibre product ;-)
Its a short word with a nice zing to it.
I had recently watched a west wing episode where Bartlet used a gun metaphor in commenting on Richies book.
And i nagged Kovid till he agreed to the name ;-)
However it came about, the program is awesome. And welcome to MobileRead!
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Old 02-15-2009, 02:09 PM   #19
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Hello Krittika just a piece of usless information Calibre is the name of a talking library for the blind in the UK I used to deal with them a lot when my mother was alive as she was blind
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Old 02-15-2009, 02:55 PM   #20
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Well, indeed--thanks for clearing that up! I have a confession to make: I sometimes find it annoying when people call it caliber instead of calibre, .......

Welcome to MR, Krittika!
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....and yet I feel that to be annoyed at the spelling 'caliber' could be a tad unfair. After all, etymologically speaking, 'liber' is Latin for 'book' (or the inner bark of a tree); as the cap would fit so well, some may find it a shade footling to decry it.... and it adds a deeper dimension to the good missus's original description in her opening post...

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Old 02-15-2009, 08:05 PM   #21
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Hello Krittika just a piece of usless information Calibre is the name of a talking library for the blind in the UK I used to deal with them a lot when my mother was alive as she was blind
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what is a talking library? how does it work?
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Old 02-15-2009, 08:13 PM   #22
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Welcome, Krittika, and thanks for the backstory on Calibre's name
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Old 02-15-2009, 08:43 PM   #25
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....and yet I feel that to be annoyed at the spelling 'caliber' could be a tad unfair. After all, etymologically speaking, 'liber' is Latin for 'book' (or the inner bark of a tree); as the cap would fit so well, some may find it a shade footling to decry it.... and it adds a deeper dimension to the good missus's original description in her opening post...

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Ah but 'libre' is free
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Old 02-16-2009, 01:21 AM   #26
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um| liberior -or -us| liberrimus -a -um ADJ
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Old 02-16-2009, 01:48 AM   #27
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I could not get calibre until I flipped the python slink on my Asus 900a to point to python2.5 - until then it complained about the urllib2 package

I tried the build but there is an issue with setuptools even with the links flipped from python2.4 to python2.5 in /usr/bin
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Old 02-16-2009, 01:09 PM   #28
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I could not get calibre until I flipped the python slink on my Asus 900a to point to python2.5 - until then it complained about the urllib2 package

I tried the build but there is an issue with setuptools even with the links flipped from python2.4 to python2.5 in /usr/bin
Use the binary installer.
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Old 02-16-2009, 02:07 PM   #29
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Krittika a talking library is audio books but they started them in the 1970s and then they used cassettes and a special player made easy for the blind to use and they send them all over the country to blind people so they can listen to books that have been put on tape it is charity run in the UK and actors and actresses donate there time to record tapes
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