I don't think many of those artists were celebrated during their lifetime, or at least not until the their form became more widely accepted in the mainstream.

Which is what I said, in different words. If you understood the term, why did you ask what it meant?

> If so many people swear by Calibre

There’s no true alternative. A lot of people use Calibre despite how it looks, because it does all the things. The world of messing with ebooks outside the vetted stores isn’t that big.

> It is not only about the aesthetic design trends.

I didn’t even so much as hint that. Please don’t straw man.

> They don’t need to apply a coat of liquid glass and modern icon treatment to make it well designed.

Again, didn’t even so much as suggested that. I personally dislike Liquid Glass.

> toolbox

Again, there’s nothing wrong with being a toolbox nor have I claimed there is.

> This appeal to authority

There was no appeal to authority. You paid no attention to words in the comment, you fabricated an argument in your head and are fighting that.

Fucking hell, HN is tiring. Stop being so angry all the time, we’re not on opposing teams. Not every comment is a criticism or disagreement for you to rally against.

Calibre is great and I’m happy it exists. I recommend it to people despite not using it myself (I make my own tools). When I used it I found it to be very ugly and at times confusing and found it could benefit from applying some basic well-understood and researched design principles. But that’s all my opinion. You’re welcome to have yours, I don’t care, use whatever you like. Just please don’t mischaracterise my words and don’t come all angry and citing misapplied fallacies at me. I didn’t do that to you and would appreciate the same courtesy. Don’t stoke hate.

I don’t use a Kindle (it’s a Kobo, those are very hackable) and don’t use my tools to manage the reading list, I prefer to do that on device. But sure, I’m not claiming it’s for everyone, there’s a reason I recommend Calibre to other people. My needs are fairly minor, I don’t even use any of the popular alternative interfaces like KOReader.

> I’m impressed but also… that’s a lot of effort.

Not that much effort, and the tools have evolved as my habits did. I’ll give you one simple example of such a tool: I can select an EPUB and press a keyboard shortcut which actions it in Alfred to first convert it to to a Kobo EPUB with kepubify and then upload to Dropbox with rclone. I can then download it from the Kobo manually.

I had another which would take the URL of the frontmost browser tab, download and convert it to EPUB with pandoc, then it’d reuse the same kepubify and rclone steps. That one doesn’t work that well nowadays, with all the websites getting harder to access programatically due to all the LLM scraping.

Neither of those needs a lot of code, and I’m still relying on other tools for the heavy lifting. It’s just that for my specific personal needs, this is faster and more convenient than using Calibre.

Like calibre, I guess :)

Obligatory: I miss Rdio. That was them too.