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by enriquto 2095 days ago
What a time to be alive.

I remember installing calibre once, because I needed to open an .epub file I had. Upon opening it, it started to "classify" stuff and build a sort of catalog, to which I kill -9'd it immediately and uninstalled it for good measure. But mounting filesystems is way, way worse than anything I imagined it was about to do!
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powersnail 2095 days ago
While the filesystem issue showed stubbornness, the fact that it tried to build a catalog is perfectly reasonable, given it is an ebook management software, which happens to include an epub reader.

You really can't blame a program to do what it says to do.

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enriquto 2095 days ago
I don't blame the program, I blame myself for installing a management software when all I wanted was an ebook viewer (and definitely NOT a management software of any kind).
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antientropic 2095 days ago
FYI: Calibre contains a program appropriately named "ebook-viewer" that allows you to view a file (like an epub) without all the library management stuff.
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