u/AnthropomorphicCat

I know that Arch adds new versions of packages "when they are ready", but I found it weird that the Extra repo has version 8.7.0-12 of Calibre (released on July 2025), while the latest version available in Calibre's website is 9.8.0. In the AUR you can find calibre-bin, which installs the latest version.

I thought that maybe the devs decided to stop maintaining that package, but if that's the case, why it hasn't been removed from the repos? Then I thought that maybe there is a good reason for keeping that specific version, so I searched both the forum and this subreddit for more information about this, but I couldn't find any. So, does anybody knows why the version on the repos is outdated? (Not complaining or anything, I'm just genuinely intrigued.)

En los últimos años he leído únicamente libros en inglés (por ejemplo, la serie de Discworld por Terry Pratchett, o los libros de ciencia ficción que ha escrito Andy Weir), y me di cuenta que tiene tiempo que no he leído nada en español. El problema que tengo es que la mayoría de las recomendaciones que he visto son de libros con tramas tristes (por ejemplo, El llano en llamas por Juan Rulfo) y yo la verdad ahorita prefiero algo más tranquilo. No hay tanto problema si los autores son de otros países latinoamericanos, pero si busco algo en donde el idioma original sea español. (Me han recomendado Canasta de Cuentos Mexicanos por Bruno Traven, pero al parecer él fue alemán y escribió ese libro en inglés).

English is not my first language, but I prefer to read books in their original language so that nothing is lost in translation, specially if the work depends a lot on wordplay (Like Terry Pratchett's books)

When I was young I read lots of Agatha Christie's books in Spanish and I liked most of them, but I had a bad experience with Why Didn't They Ask Evans? because:

1. In Spanish the title is Trayectoria de Búmeran ("The boomerang's trajectory", completely unrelated), and because of that I didn't realize the titular question was that important.
2. Because of the information lost in translation you are unable to foresee the main plot twist. The translator just added a footnote explaining what happened, and it just felt dumb.

There is also one Isaac Asimov's novel that relies on the word "lemonade", and that only makes sense in English.

Recently I read the first book in the Nero Wolfe series, Fer-de-lance, I liked it and I'm interested in reading more, but the autor uses lots of old American slang that I found a bit difficult to understand, so I thought that maybe I should read them in Spanish. But then I remembered that sometimes mystery novels uses wordplay for their clues (like in the examples I mentioned before). So:

TL,DRL: are there mystery novels that must be read in their original language in order to get all the clues? Are there any Nero Wolfe books like that?