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I would like to nominate Kovid Goyal, the author of Calibre[1] and Kitty[2], to this list. I don't know if he accepts sponsorship (and/or donations) - I've not

by hiyer 5y ago

I would like to nominate Kovid Goyal, the author of Calibre[1] and Kitty[2], to this list. I don't know if he accepts sponsorship (and/or donations) - I've not seen anything of that sort on his websites - but I'll be eternally grateful for the wonderful stuff he's created! 1. https://calibre-ebook.com/ https://calibre-ebook.com/ 2. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ Edit: formatting

astoilkov 5y ago
I'm looking at him right now — https://github.com/kovidgoyal https://github.com/kovidgoyal. You can sponsor him at https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal. It seems like he's spending a lot of time developing Calibre and has only 9 sponsors. Do you know of any other way he can make money out of Calibre? GitHub contributions graph shows that he has consistently worked on Calibre for the past 12 years. That's amazing!
- ddoeth 5y ago
  Damn, I have never seen a git contribution overview with so little missing days.
- heurisko 5y ago
  I've used ebook-convert [1] from the Calibre project. It is unrivalled in my opinion. [1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....
david_allison 5y ago
I've posted about Kovid before. He's on sponsors[0] making >=$40/m. He also makes $2,142/m on Patreon[1] and ~$74/m on Liberapay[2]. The calibre site[3] also accepts PayPal. [0] https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal [1] https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal [2] https://liberapay.com/kovidgoyal/donate https://liberapay.com/kovidgoyal/donate [3] https://calibre-ebook.com/donate https://calibre-ebook.com/donate
math-dev 5y ago
Calibre is Amazing!
Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
Calibre is a great piece of software. I am using it for Legos instructions set for my partner hobby which have over 300 paper instruction booklets. I have majority of the digital instruction sets in PDF from various sources and put them in Calibre Web for my partner to access the PDFs without needing to through the box to find it. Surely Legos have their own digital library but they only hold small pool of instructions on their sites which prompted me to use Calibre Web. It works well for him and I am happy with that.

by hiyer 5y ago

astoilkov 5y ago

I'm looking at him right now — https://github.com/kovidgoyal https://github.com/kovidgoyal. You can sponsor him at https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal. It seems like he's spending a lot of time developing Calibre and has only 9 sponsors. Do you know of any other way he can make money out of Calibre? GitHub contributions graph shows that he has consistently worked on Calibre for the past 12 years. That's amazing!

ddoeth 5y ago
Damn, I have never seen a git contribution overview with so little missing days.
heurisko 5y ago
I've used ebook-convert [1] from the Calibre project. It is unrivalled in my opinion. [1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert.html https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....

david_allison 5y ago

I've posted about Kovid before. He's on sponsors[0] making >=$40/m. He also makes $2,142/m on Patreon[1] and ~$74/m on Liberapay[2]. The calibre site[3] also accepts PayPal. [0] https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal [1] https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal [2] https://liberapay.com/kovidgoyal/donate https://liberapay.com/kovidgoyal/donate [3] https://calibre-ebook.com/donate https://calibre-ebook.com/donate

math-dev 5y ago

Calibre is Amazing!

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

Calibre is a great piece of software. I am using it for Legos instructions set for my partner hobby which have over 300 paper instruction booklets. I have majority of the digital instruction sets in PDF from various sources and put them in Calibre Web for my partner to access the PDFs without needing to through the box to find it. Surely Legos have their own digital library but they only hold small pool of instructions on their sites which prompted me to use Calibre Web. It works well for him and I am happy with that.