There, one fine day, October 31, a young programmer named Kovid Goyal officially presented the first version of its ebook manager. This first version would later be Caliber, the popular program that almost all readers now use with our eReader.
However, that October 31 was not from 2016, far from it but October 31, 2006, that is, 10 years ago. Indeed today is the birthday or better said anniversary of Caliber, one of the most important tools that exists when working with ebooks.
But its creator did not have in mind or even expected that Caliber was what it currently is. Not only has it managed to overcome the problems it presented in the first versions, but it also has a multitude of news sources that it can take to our eReader as well as an ebook editor that will not only allow us to edit the ebooks but also to create them.
It also has a fast support of the most current eReaders on the market and most importantly for a developer, Caliber is a project that is feeding and helping other Free Software projects. In this case we know that Sigil is being developed with the help of the Caliber team.
Unfortunately, these advances have not been made in ten years but have been all in the last two years, when Kovid Goyal received help from new developers who were interested in working on Caliber. At the moment developments are released every week, Friday through Friday and with each version that comes out, the main operating systems also update their versions, especially the Gnu / Linux distributions that have Caliber in their repositories.
Fortunately, Caliber continues to be more and more interesting to use, to the point that now there are more tools that allow us to transform our computer into an ebook server for any eReader, something very interesting Do not you think?