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 A [tarball of the source code](http://status.calibre-ebook.com/dist/src) for the 
 current calibre release.
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+Bugs
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+Bug reports and feature requests should be made in the calibre bug tracker at [launchpad](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre).
+The GitHub bug tracker is only for people contributing code to calibre.
+