Agnes Kiss
Instructional designer, teaching into statistics, interested in a wide range of subjects.
Instructional Design. Teaching Statistics. Healthy Living. Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind. Podcasts. - StumbleUpon. Writing. Creating. Design. About. Calibre started life on 31 October, 2006, soon after the release of the SONY PRS-500, the first e-ink based reader to be sold commercially in the US.
At the time, I was a graduate student, with a lot of time on my hands. The PRS-500 did not work at all with Linux, my operating system of choice, so I decided to reverse engineer the USB protocol that it used, to get it working on Linux. This was accomplished with the help of the fine folks over at mobileread.com and calibre was born, albeit named libprs500. At the time there were no satisfactory tools to convert content into the LRF format, used by the SONY reader, so I decided to implement a converter to convert the most popular e-book formats to LRF.
Body - Working out.