A New Weekend Pastime

That would be reinstalling calibre. The calibre maintainer is not in the least shy about releasing frequent updates. Considering the number of different readers, operating systems, and ebook formats that he’s supporting, I’m not shocked at this. In fact, it’s encouraging; much better to have a constantly changing and improving product than a lame duck that “kinda works.”

Part of participation in free and open source software, from a user’s perspective, is a willingness to stay current with the product; yes that requires a little effort. If you’re not willing to invest that time, perhaps FOSS isn’t really for you.

So, I’m running the latest calibre, and next weekend, I’ll bake a fresh one, if it gets updated again. The time involved in building a new version is measured in minutes, not days or weeks. This is a negligible price to pay.

-k-