Re:Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
by cxr on Saturday November 18, 2023 @06:43PM
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I was with you up until...
> watch Goyal tell a new user "you can't do that, use the builtin reader if you want reading progress synced, fuck off"
... which seems to be a quote that you just made up. I might be wrong (maybe you meant to link to another thread and mixed up your links, or maybe the link you provided wasn't supposed to actually be evidence for the quoted part), but it seems like not.
This is a horrible practice, and you should stop.* (It's actually against the rules on HN[1][2], but you shouldn't do it anywhere. It's lame.)
* Yes, even in circumstances where you profess to have no intent of misleading people and are just "paraphrasing"—that's not how paraphrasing works to begin with, and the person's own words should be sufficient[3] to indict if they are in fact sufficient to indict them.
> watch Goyal tell a new user "you can't do that, use the builtin reader if you want reading progress synced, fuck off"
... which seems to be a quote that you just made up. I might be wrong (maybe you meant to link to another thread and mixed up your links, or maybe the link you provided wasn't supposed to actually be evidence for the quoted part), but it seems like not.
This is a horrible practice, and you should stop.* (It's actually against the rules on HN[1][2], but you shouldn't do it anywhere. It's lame.)
* Yes, even in circumstances where you profess to have no intent of misleading people and are just "paraphrasing"—that's not how paraphrasing works to begin with, and the person's own words should be sufficient[3] to indict if they are in fact sufficient to indict them.
1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600284#13602947>
2. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551#15890822> (you'll need showdead turned on)
3. e.g. <https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/2011720#yui_3_10_3_1...>