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Kovid Goyal - Calibre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_(software) He's brought books to millions of pe
by aaron695 4y ago
Kovid Goyal - Calibre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibre_(software)
He's brought books to millions of people.
It's software that increased the rate of information access to people. It's what very very few people achieve in a lifetime.
And it's a purely technical solutio, where as Gottfrid Svartholm/Fredrik Neij/Peter Sunde or Alexandra Elbakyan are also very much activists.
Interviews with him don't get upvotes on HN. Bitchy claims do, but also good people defend him. He puts a lot of effort helping the average user, when he should be in god mode only interreacting which high end user who've done the filtering for him.
- yesenadam 4y agoGenuine question - I read the wiki page, not knowing anything much about it. It's an ebook reader? How is it true that he brought books to millions? I can't tell from your comment or the wiki page. Thanks.
- kubanczyk 4y agoCalibre is primarily a sideloader for Kindle and other popular readers, and only secondarily an ebook reader by itself. By "sideloader" I mean that one can manage and upload a collection of ("pirated") literature onto your device. Sometimes it involves non-trivial conversion, so it can be harder than it sounds.
- yesenadam 4y agoOhh ok thank you very much! Perfect explanation.