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Why would they add LLMs to Calibre? Maybe update the dogshit UI instead. Insane that even Calibre is headed down the LLM shitfest.
Why would they add LLMs to Calibre?
It looks like it’s so you can “discuss” a book with the overgrown autocomplete, or ask it what to read next if you are incapable of independent thought. I could, sort of, understand making a plugin for this sort of nonsense, but building it in, as a brief check of their site suggests has happened, is so utterly ridiculous that it defies rationality.
I liked Calibre, I’ve even contributed code to it, but it looks like I’ll be investigating this fork now.
Dam…and here I was thinking about what I just read, like a fool 🤧
Which is funny because that is one of the things that LLMs are particularly bad at.
Why would they add LLMs to Calibre?
So it can scan text.
I have not heard of this program until just now, but presumably they’re not integrating an LLM so you can stop and chat with fictional characters. It’s gotta be an overpowered answer to ‘here is some plaintext, populate its metadata.’
Calibre…the software that looks like it was designed in 1998? The one that isn’t very intuitive? They think AI is what it needs?
The guy behind it isn’t really known for caring what users think. Looks like he’s even disabled issues for Calibre on Github lmao
Why did they add an ai to calibre what the hell T—T
Literally just got gifted a kobo I was setting this up for 🥲
Depending on how you use it, you might be able to get by with Calibre-Web-Automated which has a kobo-sync snapin.
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Have you tried Zathura? It’s a ui-less PDF reader with plugins for a lot of different formats, including the ones you mentioned. All navigation is done via keyboard and once you learn the shortcuts it’s a breeze.
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Koreader maybe? Calibre is intended for library / e-reader device management, the viewer it has is mostly just for a quick preview look and not really intended for actually reading.
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Damn, calibre was so good for so long. This is why I love open source though! No big deal, just time to move on.
Worst part is going to be having to tell people about it every time calibre gets recommended for the next year or so lol, like the whole Organic Maps > CoMaps thing
If this is still maintained and updated in 6 months I’ll eat a bug.
Took me longer than I care to admit to get the origin of the name.
What do you call a fish with no eye? Fsh
Does Calibre’s devs have an email I can contact to express my utter disgust?
Kovid Goyal
Used to be a fairly accessible guy.
That name is awful and will reduce how many users it will get
Its a niche fork of a niche product that doesn’t make money for anyone involved in making it. They don’t care.
Considering it’s already the first result searching “calibre without AI” it’ll probably be fine. No one will use this who doesn’t already know about calibre.
What would the difference be between it having one user and it having a million users? I doubt they are banking on getting mad donations, there are easier ways to make money.
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Interesting, thank you
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