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Calibre is so darn useful. It gets hate for the eclectic ui but it's absolutely essential for any ebook Downloaders imo. Kovid is a real hero for as much work as he does on this. He must spend several hours a day every day of the year on it.

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> Kovid is a real hero

Has Ph.D in quantum computing. Works on ebooks.

He really is a hero.

also probably a good place to plug his kitty terminal emulator which is really, really nice. Two pieces of software I use a lot.

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

It's a shame it's named kitty though. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/9

Its GPL v3 licensed, any one of those complaining people could fork it and name it what they want it to be called.

That wouldn’t solve the issue. In fact it might the problem worse.

Wouldn't it? If the complaint is that the project is too hard to find and too hard to form any kind of online community (searchable blog posts, forum posts, etc) around, then a fork with a more distinctive name should become the dominant version by accreting the larger userbase.

This is the most ridiculous bikeshedding I've ever seen, I'm glad he didn't cave to the ridiculous request to rename it.

Until reading the issue, I assumed it was the fork of PuTTY.

That's an absolutely terrible name.

Got to respect dedication and hard work. But why doesn't his homepage support Chrome? https://kovidgoyal.net

Edit: I was referring to the alert() upon loading the site:

    W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site.
    I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should.
    Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6

Works fine over here.

it works in chrome latest. from the website quotes " This website makes heavy use of DHTML and requires a W3C DOM (Level 1), CSS and CSS-P compliant browser. It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.4. For detailed site information click on the button. "

Lot of simplicity just works. ( lot of work would have gone in 1990's to get this site up and running "

It works fine for me in chrome v77

I get that in Safari too.

> This site was made along time ago, when I was interested in web programming, using DHTML and javascript, long before the advent of modern cross browser techniques. As such, it's a bit of an artifact, showing what was possible, (with a lot of work in the 1990's).

I figured as much. Don't get me wrong, I love it (in an excessively creative myspace kind of way).

Brother, this is a great site, don't ever change it! I liked some of your poems, and this line "fault tolerant quantum computers" Definitely made me raise an eyebrow or two.

Are you using macOS? He didn't test that:

    correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32)

Interestingly, it fails for me because of Mac, not because of Chrome:

this.correctBrowser = (this.nav || this.ie); this.correctVersion = (this.nav5up || this.ie5up); this.correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32); this.supported = (this.correctBrowser && this.correctVersion && this.correctOS);

A case of platform detection, instead of feature detection, and an illustration of how platform detection fails in future-proofing your code.

Yeah, the UI is just bizarre but it doesn't really matter. What matters is whether the update supports DRM stripping extensions. Can't find that info anywhere; won't update without knowing...

That is because for legal reason it is better if they stay completely unsupported from the main developer

You can ask this in the forums and someone ought to have tested the plugin with 4.0 by now...

I just downloaded a book from Amazon and was able to convert it from azw3 to epub.

On android I greatly prefer fbreader, which has a really simple UI and gets the job done for reading epub format.

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