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I would like to nominate Kovid Goyal, the author of Calibre[1] and Kitty[2], to this list. I don't know if he accepts sponsorship (and/or donations) - I've not seen anything of that sort on his websites - but I'll be eternally grateful for the wonderful stuff he's created!

1. https://calibre-ebook.com/

2. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/

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I've posted about Kovid before.

He's on sponsors[0] making >=$40/m. He also makes $2,142/m on Patreon[1] and ~$74/m on Liberapay[2]. The calibre site[3] also accepts PayPal.

[0] https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal

[1] https://www.patreon.com/kovidgoyal

[2] https://liberapay.com/kovidgoyal/donate

[3] https://calibre-ebook.com/donate

I'm looking at him right now — https://github.com/kovidgoyal. You can sponsor him at https://github.com/sponsors/kovidgoyal.

It seems like he's spending a lot of time developing Calibre and has only 9 sponsors. Do you know of any other way he can make money out of Calibre?

GitHub contributions graph shows that he has consistently worked on Calibre for the past 12 years. That's amazing!

I've used ebook-convert [1] from the Calibre project. It is unrivalled in my opinion.

[1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....

Damn, I have never seen a git contribution overview with so little missing days.

Calibre is a great piece of software. I am using it for Legos instructions set for my partner hobby which have over 300 paper instruction booklets. I have majority of the digital instruction sets in PDF from various sources and put them in Calibre Web for my partner to access the PDFs without needing to through the box to find it. Surely Legos have their own digital library but they only hold small pool of instructions on their sites which prompted me to use Calibre Web. It works well for him and I am happy with that.

Calibre is Amazing!

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