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# Calibre
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Calibre is a somewhat popular eBook management package that's also free software. <http://calibre-ebook.com/>
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Install via
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# apt-get install calibre
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There is a somewhat unfortunate interaction between Calibre and git-annex...
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* git-annex makes its files become read-only. By the way, that's not quite obvious from the documentation; I suggest making that more prominent.
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* Calibre modifies files (not quite sure of semantics, how, or why) when doing various operations, notably such as when copying a book from one's library to one's portable reading device.
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These don't play well together, sadly.
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I'd expect most of the issue to sit on the Calibre side, and have reported it as a bug.
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[Calibre bug #739045](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/739045)
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Preliminary indication is that they're treating it as a functionality change they'll decline to fix. Which isn't entirely unreasonable - I anticipated as much, and I don't want to treat that as a bad/wrong decision.
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However, I think it's:
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* Unfortunate, as fitting Calibre together with git-annex seems like a neat idea.
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* Useful to make sure that this kind of "doesn't play well together" condition is documented, even if only as a bug report.
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