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I just don’t have a Windows PC to test on. There are also a few Mac-specific quirks like opening the epubs in Apple Books.

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Linux support should be extremely simple to test and deploy. It'd be like an hour's task to write up a github action for it so you don't even need to have a local linux deploy or whatever.

I was going to do it myself but the build scripts you made are incompatible with node 17.x.x (it requires exporting `NODE_OPTIONS=--openssl-legacy-provider`), and they also seem to assume that `react-scripts`, etc. are in the local environment, rather than including them portably as a yarn package dependency and then doing `yarn exec <xyz>`. There's too much weirdness here and I'm not familiar enough with the systems involved to even begin looking into making it compatible (I started, and then realised that I'm supposed to be relaxing from my fulltime job, not dealing with more weird new tech systems that don't behave sensibly).

"This fence is so long and sprawling that even thinking about painting it negatively affects my health. But I bet you could knock it out in under an hour," Tom said to the other children.

Later that afternoon, Aunt Polly arrived home to an unpainted fence.

I don't think it's a stretch to say that the primary maintainer, the person who wrote the (extremely slapdash) build scripts and knows exactly why it's copying folders during the build process, is going to get the changes done faster than someone who is not knowledgeable with the tools and codebase? Writing code isn't painting fences, it's like asking me to replace a set of levers on an industrial piping system, except at least then the specifications of the prior levers would be available and there would be documentation for the whole thing.

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