Kovid goyal calibre linkedin profile

          Location: India · 9 connections on LinkedIn..

          Kovid Goyal was a graduate student in the US when he built an e-book converter for his use which he called Calibre.

          An interview with Kovid Goyal of calibre

          August 24, 2011

          This article was contributed by Bruce Byfield

          Growing up, Kovid Goyal planned to be a physicist working on quantum computers.

          However, while studying at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), he began developing calibre, an ebook manager for GNU/Linux, OS X, and Windows. The project quickly grew, developing its own ecosystem of sub-projects, extensive documentation, and self-funding.

          Today, calibre is a full-time vocation for Goyal, as well as a partial source of income for other project members.

          Get inspired by Kovid Goyal, creator of calibre and kitty, who's been in the open-source realm for nearly two decades now.

        1. Get inspired by Kovid Goyal, creator of calibre and kitty, who's been in the open-source realm for nearly two decades now.
        2. From his hometown in Mumbai, he coordinates the calibre Project, a collaborative effort to create an ebook manager and converter.
        3. Location: India · 9 connections on LinkedIn.
        4. My thoughts, writings and philosophy.
        5. We are absolutely thrilled to announce our first keynote speaker for PyCon India - Kovid Goyal.

          6. Goyal recalled:

          I've been programming since I was about seven years old, mostly for my own amusement. My first ever program was printing out multiplication tables, written in BASIC on a ZX spectrum+. This was by way of trying to convince my teachers that I really didn't need to memorize the multiplication tables.

          My teachers weren't convinced.

          A GNU/Linux user from the age of fourteen, first on Red Hat and la