Ughhhh, et tu calibre?

[abucci@buc.ci]

Ughhhh, et tu calibre?

New features
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

Release: 8.16.1 04 Dec, 2025; or here on their GitHub

Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don't follow closely. I wasn't aware they'd been sipping from the poisoned chalice.

#calibre #FOSS #OpenSource #books #eBooks #eBookManager #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@abucci God damn it.

[canageek@wandering.shop]

@xgranade @abucci Anyone know if an alternative for switching ebooks between formats?

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@Canageek @abucci I don't, no, in part because Calibre does (did) so much more than just that. It was truly unique so far as I'm aware.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@xgranade @Canageek @abucci yeah realistically we're probably going to still use calibre, because we just don't have an alternative. we'll just make sure that's turned off...... sigh

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@ireneista @Canageek @abucci @mkj made the great suggestion of an "archive fork" that removes AI shit and that can serve as a base for future hard forks. Hopefully that can do some of the work of turning off the AI?

Only gotten as far as updating the README.md with eventual goals for now, heh.

https://codeberg.org/cgranade/arcalibre

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@xgranade @Canageek @abucci @mkj oh good call

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@ireneista @Canageek @abucci @mkj I absolutely don't think I have the time or stamina to maintain a hard fork at this point in my life and long COVID, but if I can do anything to help reduce the burden of getting a hard fork started, I count that as a win.