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Kovid only makes $1,800/m from/for development.[0]

More people should support him; Calibre has been extremely high quality for years.

https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal

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Seems to me that he might do better if he put in a few tiers of "You get absolutely nothing extra for this except the thanks of Kovid and the Calibre community for supporting ongoing development." Right now all support is custom donations.

I don't want to dig up old grievances but I think most people who have had the misfortune to interact with Kovid on a personal level would agree he is not the sort of person who deserves a penny of your money.

Care to explain?

Great reminder. Done. I wonder how much extra income he will get just because you thought to mention it.

~$57/m: well worth the time to make the comment

I've recently switched to his terminal emulator Kitty and I'm similarly impressed by that! I had no idea he was also behind calibre. I definitely owe him a subscription.

Also, kitty, which is a very fast Linux terminal I use all the time.

(not to be confused with the terminal software of the same name that runs in Windows.)

Is he the sole creator? That is a sadly small sum for this work.

I think there are other contributors, but he rubs lots of people the wrong way, so probably not as many as there could be.

What an unfortunate name these days

Kovid (pronounced with a soft d sound as 'th' in the) means an "expert in his domain".

Well now I think it's a badass name =]

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