Haha I was fully expecting this comment when I wrote it. Hi fellow c/fuckcars lurker 👋🏽

I don’t see any future for seatbelts, and forcing such an ugly implement in cars might lead to problems.

Seatbelts will kill cars if it persists there long enough.

Personally, a few reasons.

• I don’t need to run 2 containers and >10GB. I could just install and run in 10 seconds.
• My whole library and metadata is self contained in a single dir. On a fresh OS install I could simply point Calibre to the dir, and off we go.
• A rich plugin ecosystem, including deDRM plugins.
• I can just ignore the AI stuff (for now, at least)
• I’ve used it for close to 2 decades. Familiarity is definitely a factor. And yes, it’s still as ugly as it was 20 years ago. But once you’ve set your workflow up, the UI just kinda melds to the background.

It is one of the ugliest, most complex to configure, pieces of software I’ve ever used. It’s also the best ebook management tool out there. I love Calibre.

Everyone has a price. Maybe a superyacht or two from Gabe’s fleet?