As the book phenomenon took off, that income grew and libprs500 usage also started shooting through the roof.”
Goyal continues reminiscing, “In the initial stages, it created enough income for me to afford one pizza a week, which was very welcome as a grad student. Since libprs500 seemed to have a fair number of fans, I decided to put up a small ‘Donate’ button on its website,” Goyal told OpenSource magazine in an interview. “This was accomplished with the help of the fine folks over at and calibre was born, albeit named libprs500. So he decided to reverse engineer the USB protocol that it used, to get it working on FOSS (free and open source software). And, the PRS-500 did not work at all with GNU/Linux, his operating system of choice. Let’s hear the story in Goyal’s words: “calibre started life on October 31, 2006, soon after the release of the Sony PRS-500, the first e-ink based reader to be sold commercially in the US.”Īt the time, Goyal was a graduate student with a lot of time on his hands. Other languages include French (99.9 per cent), Swedish (96.4 per cent), German (86.3 per cent), Zulu and Xhosa (barely 0.3 per cent complete, but at least it’s being done), besides many more.Īttempts are being made, with varying degrees of success, to translate it into Telugu, Sinhala, Pushto, Malayalam, Bengali, Hindi (only 3.2 per cent complete), Gujarati, Kannada (34.1 per cent), Tamil (38.9 per cent), Punjabi (38.2 per cent) and Marathi (39.3 per cent), among the languages of South Asia. Spanish and Ukrainian translations are both 100 per cent complete. I don’t advertise the fact that I am Indian, I guess.”Ĭalibre (spelt as calibre, without a capital letter) has, or is, being translated into about 106 languages worldwide. How come so few recognise that this product has been made by an Indian (or at least, led by one)?” So the first question I, almost accusingly, asked Kovid Goyal was, “I am hugely impressed by what calibre has accomplished. It might seem a bit strange that Indians are barely aware that this excellent software, which so many around the world use, has been created by a desi.
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