Are there any non-bloated, non-jeeted alternatives to Calibre? I've been thinking of just using lf and find some other program to send books to my ereader
>>107443945yeah its called "copy and paste"
Only people with a low IQ and balding head have a problem with calibre
I have been looking for a decent simpler and faster alternative myself. But it doesn't seem to be there any serious viable options as far as I could find.I personally just use Calibre on PC, and Moon+ Reader on mobile. And syncing my library between them using Syncthig.
>>107444088It is slow, written in Python, and doesn't adjust to the UNIX philosophy
>>107443945I use Thorium and it's pretty nice.https://thorium.edrlab.org/en/If you don't like it there are alternatives listed on this site that should all be decent.https://fmhy.net/reading#ebook-readers
>>107444088t. Covid Goyim
>>107444152Who gives a shit?I pirate ebooks, open calibre, transfer to my kobo, close calibre. It sufficiently does the needful.
>>107444088TRVTH NVKE>>107443945DVMB NVKE
>>107444161What a crazy name.
>>107443945pick your poison
>>107444152>It is slowIt's not.>written in PythonWho cares? It just works.>doesn't adjust to the UNIX philosophyIt does one thing and one thing well: manage an ebook library.
>>107446700It tries to do much more than just manage an ebook library. It is also a converter, an ebook reader, sends books to an ereader, modifies ebooks, and many other things. It is bloated af, and yes, it is slow.
>>107446762>It tries to do much more than just manage an ebook library. It is also a converter, an ebook reader, sends books to an ereader, modifies ebooks, and many other things.That's what an "ebook manager" is supposed to do?>it is slow.Upgrade your piece of shit machine if a simple program like Calibre runs "slow"?
>>107446825>That's what an "ebook manager" is supposed to do?Under that logic, nothing would even qualify as bloat
>>107445802Is there any reader that actually achieves all of the following:-fixed layout epub support-Japanese filenames and metadata-table of contents-actual full screen with proper dual page layout and no menu elements-able to quickly scroll through a document-no screen flashing-normal OS integration as a reader without requiring extra library management or importing.Foliate comes the closest but the screen flashes are annoying and browsing a bit slow.Arianna could be better but lacks a full screen display for some unknown reason.Why is Librum even recommended? Shit doesn't even run without an account.
>>107446825retard
>>107444015why are people so averse to traditional files and folders approach to handle collections?
i just like it
https://github.com/seblucas/cops
>>107443945apple books
>>107446976this one is good>>107446878im searching for a good one too. i want a gtk nonbloated solution.i know atril can read comics and zathura can into epubs with extensions. other solutions: fbreader that is now proprietary, djview and evince.
>>107445802I use foliate whenever I need to open an .epub on desktop, and KOReader for the ebook reader, haven't heard about most of the other names.
>>107443945People who bitch and moan about fucking Calibre of all things so hilarious.
>>107445802where's mupdf?
>so many jeet defenders
>ITS NOT BLOATED SAAARShit literally has like 1 million lines of code, and tons of features no one will ever use
You make this thread every monthAgain you fucking retarded thirdie: NO
Used calibre until I discovered I could send epubs via email to kindleBased Bezos solved the calibre problem
>>107444088Sort of this>>107443945Caliber is okay once you get it setup, but until you do its retarded.I used it to download my digital textbooks for school so I could read them offline and without having to reload the browser for each fucking page.
>>107446951Because at some point, after you start wanting to add more information such as series, publisher, language, or status to the previously straightforward tree of directories and files, you get either absurdly long directory and file names or a twisted maze of little symbolic links, all alike.
It literally just fucking works. What more do you need?
>>107448475I don't need more, I need less
>>107448487works on my machine but I use Calibre™
>>107443945if youre on windows then Sumatra is the obvious choice. I really wish Sumatra would get ported to Linux, I asked the developer about this on his forum and he has no plans on doing it. Sumatra is open source so anyone could do it.>>107444088>Only people with a low IQ and balding head have a problem with calibreThere is no decent ereader on Linux to open files like .epub, Calibre is total shit, the only 'people' who like Calibre are low IQ and balding head dorks
>>107449255>There is no decent ereader on Linux to open files like .epubI'll need a definition of decent e-reader, anon.
>>107449304I already said Sumatra
>>107449745That's an example, not a definition.Seriously, list some must have features.
>>107444152>doesn't adjust to the UNIX philosophyfind a fucking rope faggot.
>>107449933Go back
>>107449920I personally think that .chm were the perfect e-reader file format because its based on html which is totally open and universal. So it supports scaling, fonts, embedded files, hyperlinking. I dont understand why .chm lost out to .pdf and epub both of which are static. epub just looks like shit and does horrible formatting
>UGH THIS PROGRAM DOES WHAT I WANT BUT IT ALSO HAS FUNCTIONS I DON'T USE THIS ANNOYS ME IS THERE NO PROGRAM THAT HAS EXACTLY ONLY THE FEATURES I USE
>>107450161Epub isn't static, though.>So it supports scaling, fonts, embedded files, hyperlinking.The only thing in that list I haven't seen in an epub is embedded files, unless images count as embedded files.
>>107450161EPUB is also based on HTML.It reflows too.The formatting and appearance of EPUBs are entirely dependent on the underlying HTML.
>>107450330Ive never seen a bad .chm file, every book renders perfectly. epubs render passable on Sumatra, on Calibre it looks like stone age shitthe fact is that chm just renders better and easier, epub might have formatting abilities but no one seems to be able to use it
>>107450492So compressed HTML renders better than compressed HTML.Got it.
>>107449255No dark mode on Sumatra is a deal breaker. If you try it inverts images/pictures as well. Developer gave this issue a "wont fix"
>>107450671if youre talking about that god awful yellow color of the UI, you can change that in the config fileif you like reading books with a dark background Im sure you can change that in the config file also
>>107450289I want a library manager. I already have an ebook reader (Zathura-Mupdf). If I want to convert files, I will use Pandoc. If I want to send stuff my kindle, I will use an USB. Is it so hard to make a program that does one thing and does it well?
>>107450755A program does multiple things. A function of a program does a single thing. Linux has its terminology wrong since inception.
>>107443945>I've been thinking of just using lf and find some other program to send books to my ereaderjust use the OSs regular file browser bruv why do you need anything special
>>107450732here is Sumatra's "dark mode"
>>107444152>doesn't adjust to the UNIX philosophyGOOD. Unix is horrible, and so is its "philosophy" of having 6 gorillion tiny, borderline unusable "programs", piping them together instead of software that is actually useful and gets the job done without wasting your time.
>>107446825>Upgrade your pc to run "Calibre">Upgrade your pc to run an ebook manager >Just upgrade your pc broThe absolute state of softwares these days holy kek
>>107443945>>107444088If you ever open epubs with Calibre's reader,CALIBRE WILL SILENTLY EDIT YOUR FILEShttps://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/8653>Whenever I have an EPUB file and open/read it using Calibre, Calibre silently edits the EPUB file. I know that Calibre edited my EPUBs because I calculated the checksums (SHA-256, MD5, etc.) before and after reading. This is surprising, improper, and undesirable behavior. I didn't ask Calibre to modify my books without my permission. An EPUB reader is supposed to read EPUB files, and not edit them.https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1894442>Why is this issue considered "invalid"? An EPUB viewer is expected to view EPUB files, not silently modify them. This is not a good default behaviour because it is surprising. Given the number of users with a similar issue, I don't understand why this surprising behaviour is still the default.>Frankly it is quite insane that a viewer goes around modifying files and the team doesn't even consider the possibility of it being inappropriate.
>>107453180Why don't we fork it?
>>107453180His answer's pretty good, anon. If you can't please all your users, it's best to please most of them. I don't like that default, because I only want files modified when I explicitly modify them, but at least it's only two clicks in Preferences to make it work how I want it.
>>107453180grim, that can lead to corruption and it seems you cant turn off that behaviour anymore. why do i still see people defending calibre? we need a better reader, not that fuckin' jeetware.
>>107453279the gui option is gone. and you are gay
>>107453279>I don't like that default, because I only want files modified when I explicitly modify them, but at least it's only two clicks in PreferencesHe actually even removed the option for a while, lol.>Apparently the checkbox to disable directly annotating the ebook file was removed in recent updates. I don't know why they are working so hard to force a hidden write function into a READER. However only the GUI presentation was removed, the actual option still exists, at least as of the current 6.19.1.>In the file .config/calibre/viewer-webengine.json>>107453290>it seems you cant turn off that behaviour anymore.I think it's back now, or at least someone said so in October 2023.>The checkbox is back and works fine in the current version 6.28.1.I don't have Calibre installed so I can't confirm myself.
>>107453290>it seems you cant turn off that behaviour anymoreNeed a cite, anon, because it's off on my install.
>>107453318>the gui option is gone.I updated Calibre just this morning.
>>107444088 (checked)>and balding headThat's oddly specific.
>>107453273calibre is inoperable.
>>107443945self hosted calibre-web-automated with the book downloader addon. I can read any book I want
>>107443945>>107443945Zathura-pdf-mupdf (loads epubs,ebooks, bookmarks them too) on pc.Liberera reader on phone.Fuck ereaders.
>>107453849>Fuck ereadersE-ink is great for reading fiction on the go, though.
It sucks to use on mobile. If you have poor internet connectivity it will silently fail to send any annotations you make until you reload the webpage under good connectivity. Unlike most self-hosted software it requires you to leave a desktop online rather than a server if you want to make annotations because there is no headless version. And if your workflow is dependent on any plugins you can't use those either.
>>107446762gr8 b8
Non bloat
>>107453849>>107447215>>107450755Is there any way to fix the layout?
>>107454279Read the man pages.https://man.archlinux.org/man/zathura.1Think you have to toggle dual pages on and off with d key
>>107455832The problem is that the pages are in the wrong order and each is surrounded by a white border.This is how it's supposed to look.
>>107444161>didnt greentextyou just called yourself Covid Goyim
>>107453180Just write protect your files
>>107444088> Kovid Goyim
I just want a minimalist ebook manager
What's wrong with Category -> Author -> File? Folders are enough.
>>107444088dubs whitepill SPBP
>>107453180Ever heard of file attributes idiot?
>>107456822Sometimes an author will write multiple genres, or sometimes a book treats more than one matter, so having tags is useful
>>107445802>>107447303>use foliate whenever I need to open an .epub on desktop, and KOReaderi only use koreader for everything. at one point i did vnc koreader for ipad.
>>107455992Changing to right to left page order is a single command, so that's doable. Nothing comes up about fixing the borders, though.
>>107456822How do you then track other information, such as series, language, illustrator, translator, or publisher?
>>107443945Use whichever software you want.Just don't ever donate money and disable telemetry. It's that simple.
>>107443945this is the only thing of note indians have made and it's still pretty bad
>>107458088>>107455992try atril for comics
>download book>plug usb cable from pc into ereader>use file browser to drag book unto ereader's drive>unplug usb
>>107458644Now do that 3100 times. Hell, some folks sharing their stuff online have more than 31000 unique entries.
>>107458761>ctrl + a
>>107458838What? You don't have any organization on either the PC or the e-reader?
>>107458761how fucking fast are you reading that you need to transfer 30000 books bruv i dont think ill read 1/100 of that in my life.for music i kinda get it but for books its entirely pointless. hell i only plug my ereader because i was retarded and bought one of the ones with custom firmware where's a lot of current ones come with android which means you can just download the books on your ereader and never have to plug it into anything.
>>107458929>>107458644 makes it seem like their ereader is their organizational tool.I have Calibre handleing just over 3100 ebooks, which is a lot do entirely with files and folders; other people are managing an order of magnitude more than that, which would be a pain in the ass when using the filesystem as a database substitute..
>>107458967waste of timejust download the book you're reading + a couple extra on the ereader reading 3000 books will take you many years even if you're autistically speedrunning it for some reason
>>107459086>waste of time.Being unorganized is a bigger waste of time.
>>107459131not really
>>107458885nta but a do it by folder. >philosophy>computers>novels>scienceso on, theres no need for more. just a decent reader.
>>107459215I've tried both; and you're wrong.
>>107459258Where do books philosophizing about scientists' novels go?
>>107459375nopeshit like calibre is a waste of time, the whole idea of this type of program is bloat.a file browser is all you need at most, someone is always gonna be trying to reinvent the wheel. it made sense in 2006 when the ebook space was a clusterfuck and format conversion was very important for basic use but it suffers from bloat and feature creep in a world where it has become redundant and you can just download and read any book you want on the device itself
>>107459527Do you keep nothing locally?
>>107459539i keep em on the ereaderi also usually delete anything i finish or that it will take too long to get to there's 12 books on it right now and 2 im actually currently reading
>>107459669>12 booksThat's a massive collection, anon.
>>107444152>It is slowI always read this about software where I cannot wrap my head around what people mean by that (for example: package managers).What do you do with Calibre that makes its speed relevant? How many e-books do you open a second?
>>107444152I fully support the execution of autistic people because of posts like this.Calibre isn't perfect, but I wanted to download some shit really fast, and this was the program that worked. I'm not going to bitch about anything else because it just worked.
I don't have calibre installed though
>>107460215What's your file organization look like?
>try calibre>import epubs>calibre duplicates them into its own special library folderthis is weird. musicbee and foobar don't duplicate my music. why does calibre do it?
>>107459721yea ik
>>107460130>DO NOT TRY TO IMPROVE THINGS BECAUSE...JUST DON'T
>>107460344Because Calibre has it's own idea of how to organize the files. That's it, really.
>>107460550And it is bad
>>107459796>>It is slow>I always read this about software where I cannot wrap my head around what people mean by that (for example: package managers).>What do you do with Calibre that makes its speed relevant? How many e-books do you open a second?Im going to shill .chm one more time. chm files open instantly, zero lag. chm files are also super light weight, often under 1mb where as pdf's are commonly 20mb to 40mb. If a pdf takes 10 seconds to load and you have 6 pdf's that you want to read, you just spent a full minute waiting for your ebooks to load. Which might not mean anything if youre sub-80 IQ white trash who only reads anime, but some people spend a lot of time reading books and documents and this kind of time wasting is inexcusable
>>107460344This is my main gripe with it.I know it's jeetware but I'm only using it once a month to transfer new books. Understandable if it was a daily driver.
I just open epubs in firefox with an extension. maybe it's eyecancer but works for me
>>107461841Why? If you didn't want an organizational tool, why download Calibre?
>>107462120>I'm only using it once a month to transfer new booksTo and from what?
>>107462260I want an organizational tool, but not one that duplicates my files and handles them in whatever order it wants. As the other anon said, Musicbee, for example doesn't do this.
>>107462283>I want an organizational tool, >but not one that duplicates my files and handles them in whatever order it wants.Sounds like you be happier with your current organizational tool, the filesystem, and just a reader, anon.
>>107450755This. I am fine with my reader, I just want something to organize my library.
>>107462283>As the other anon said, Musicbee, for example doesn't do this.A collection-manager-esque program has to either control the collection's storage or rebuild its internal data every time it's launched. Otherwise files can move, appear, or disappear without the system having any idea what happened.
>>107444088Cope hairfag.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PGy_wmgl6g
>>107443945You don't need calibre unless you have kindle
>>107462436>I just want something to organize my library.As long as it doesn't move anything, right?Rolling your own DB has been made pretty easy, anon. You might want to look at doing that.
Thanks for all the suggestions! However I think I’ll keep using Apple Books. :)
>>107460490Okay, let's see your ereader.>I WANT SOMEONE ELSE TO IMPROVE THINGSShut the fuck up lazy asshole.
>>107446878Readest maybe.
>>107462511Literally every other reader is better, calibre is only good for conversions.
fuck it, they should have forked fbreader the moment it went proprietary.
>>107462671I can get people who are reading manga or comics wanting two pages at once, but what benefits does it give you for text?I myself have a tall narrow reader window by default, so I'm not eye-tracking long lines of text.
>>107443945calibre-web
>>107453428This is the patrician answer
>>107446762B8 is hot frens
>>107450732>you can change that in the config filehow hard is it to setup a proper config window
>>107463365How hard is it to edit a text file?
>>107463409First I have to decide among emacs, (neo)vi(m), vcs, Eclipse, and EDT.
>>107460344>>107461841>>107462120This >>107462468 Sadly it took this long for someone to give a proper answer. When you're dealing with a massive collection, reading and pulling stuff from generic file paths with nothing watching over them isn't going to help nor save you. Unlike music and videos, images tend to degrade or get damaged far easier and faster and need a bit of help. Think of it as another layer of protection over your files. Its nothing new and many database programs do this. If anything, the program is just trying to be a proper database for your collection.You may think your images are fine and dandy, even inside zip files but they can and will get fucked without you ever knowing and this isn't always one of those, "once in a lifetime" or shitty drive type thing. I used to use a generic comic program that just blindly read off of what was in my image folder but as my collection got bigger eventually I started noticing some of the images inside their .cbr/.cbz were damaged like this, luckily not many. Possibly moving it from 1 drive to another a lot, reading from it too much, failing drive sectors. Who knows? You'll never know and something you'll never pick up on until its too late. Best case would be for them to go missing do to corruption, because at least then you could find the missing file paths but this is just one example how images can be damaged without you knowing.That's what calibre and every database program is suppose to do and in order to do that it needs to make a copy of your files because its literally writing down the 1's and 0's that make up that file. I'd say calibre best for people with big or growing collections and a generic comic reader that just reads offs file paths are good for small collections.
>>107458607It refuses to open epubs on Wayland.On X it opened it but there was no way to set a normal double page view.
>>107462527Readest has similar problems to Foliate with slow page flips and flashing.Additionally it shows the chapter name in the top right and the page number in the bottom left. When the table of content is pinned, which is a natural thing to do on a widescreen monitor, those overlap with the pages.
>>107453180A Major Problem with calibre is this snarky cunt. Your picrel, not your (entirely valid) point.
>>107462963>tall narrow reader window by defaultthe best experience for manga & comics. specially if you have an extra (vertical) monitor.>what benefits does it give you for text?a compact view, you can also fit more text in full screen and have kinda of a book experience with pages instead of scrolling, i really like it for books.>>107466697wayland bros...>>107465813audacious and mpv dont need to duplicate or rewrite my files, and they remember where i have (my historic) left and my playlists (my database). i also have a huge jgp/png collection and its super reliable, its been around for years and i view them every day with my programs.the only time i had to deal with corruption was on my file manager, moving and copying stuff; (good) programs should never corrupt, move or rewrite them (let alone a book viewer) and thats why they need to do ONE thing and do it well.
>>107465813We're talking of PDFs and epubs, mostly text, not your childish cartoons
>>107468208Manga are still epub or pdf.
>Covid Goy added an AI companion to CalibreYeah sure, it is not bloated jeetware
>>107468328case in point: theres no excuse for how shit calibre is.
>>107468561>it's realkek oh my god. What's the point of this? So you can get the AI to summarize the book for you instead of actually reading it?https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/tree/master/src/calibre/ai
>>107445802they all suck
>>107443945It's incredible how there still isn't one (1) good open source ebook readeror obsidian like zettelkasten note taking app
If I just want an app to convert and send to a Kindle through USB what's a better option? I use Fedora btw
>>107469770saar dont you know ai crypto nfc is the future saar you livin under rock troglodyte saar? in future we will have ai toilets saarthese braindead bugmen are obsessed with thecurrentthing because they think shit makes them actually "relevant". Sorta like, makes them appear more "human", like white western people. pathetic shiteaters.
>>107469907>obsidian like zettelkasten note taking appvimwiki is enough
>>107470056vimwiki is a plugin that gets raped every update and is unavailable on mobile
>>107470101Works on my machine
>>107469907The shocking part is that many commercial ebook readers are built around an open source basis but there's no usable desktop version of it.
Calibre web has the advantage of at least being a docker container, and can replace the kobo store (if you're not using koreader, which is also bloated)
>>107471411>and can replace the kobo store kobo.com or books.rakuten.co.jp/e-book/ as well?
>>107471498https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated/wiki/Kobo-Integration-&-Sync
>>107443945Pocketbook on Android is pretty decent for reading and managing ebooks. Problem is the freeware version spys the shit out of you according to DuckDuckGo Browser (which has anti-spyware blocker mode always running to let me know which apps are trying to report to the Google mothership). The paid for version doesn't seem to have this problem. But it's a really good e-reader app.If you go with the freeware version, install DuckDuckGo browser to get the anti-spyware service running. Then it can't call home.
>>107468561>>107469770>>107469989>two more gigs of dependence hell, plus tip
>>107449745The main thing I hate about Sumatra is that it doesn't support embedded audio files (mp3). A lot of instrument epubs have embedded audio and they won't play in Sumatra. You have to extract them like a zip file and then play each music file unlinked with a different music player.Such a waste...
>>107443945
>>107471727Bad bait
>>107469770AI is the future goy
>>107467708>audacious and mpv dont need to duplicate or rewrite my filesYou're conflating players and/or viewers with collection managers.
>>107469933If you already have Calibre installed for whatever reason, ebook-convert and ebook-device are CLI tools to do those things. ebook-convert is documented in the help files while ebook-device is not. No importing of the book is needed. If you don't have it installed, I can't offer any ideas, since I've use it longer than I've had an hardware e-book reader.
>>107475236Music collection managers don't duplicate audio files.Video collection managers don't duplicate video files.Calibre does not need to duplicate books.
>>107475547Which music or video collection managers do you use?Odds are they're just playlist launchers.
>>107475236>collection managers.
>>107475547>Calibre does not need to duplicate books.As long as you don't need it to recognize moved or deleted files, after you reorganize your collection and you also don't care if it rescans your entire ebook storage tree for changes at every launch, you're right.
>>107475611What else would you call a tool to keep track of a collection of things.
>download 1000000 epub torrents>we need to transfer these and delete the originalsNo fuck you I didn't plan on reading.
>>107475649>I didn't plan on reading.If you aren't going to read them, why download them?
>>107475685I'm fascinated by the thought of having a massive digital and real library. And a study with a large globe, perhaps a cigar lounge. I like free things, as such when they accumulate you want to do things with them like organize. Calibre is clunky as shit. I need software that says "OK, this is where you put all your torrent files. I'm going to organize them for you with the metadata."They had that for a while, it was called Readarr.
>>107475644any music player is also a collection manager by that logic, since it manages and organise huge music collections into playlists, does it duplicate/modify your files? no, so why does calibre.
>>107475711>I'm going to organize them for you with the metadata.Any tool that does that without taking ownership of the files still has the issues from here, >>107475632.I'd be curious to learn how Readarr got around them.
>>107475721To me, it's then a playlist manager not a music manager.Try this, but only after making and verifying a good backup, delete all your playlists, then launch your music manager and see how well it copes.
>>107475739>I'd be curious to learn how Readarr got around them.Indeed. Chaptarr looks promising but, its still closed beta. I'm thinking the implementation had to be related to hardlinks but metadata basically got screwy over time. In contrast, sonarr, for example keeps all my downloaded movies/anime in tact so I can keep seeding but organizes it. Metadata can be handled without ripping into shit, the software needs to fit the use case tho.
>>107475761well, it manages my music in a way, that is, into playlists. if i delete my playlists in it, nothing will happen because it just read my files.
>>107475632Calibre should create a database and store that information there. Why would it need to duplicate your actual data? Surely it just uses some database internally.
>>107475831Storing the path to a source file along with the metadata for the file in the manager works just fine, as long as nothing ever moves. Since your seeding, you won't be moving things before you've hit your target ratio, if at all, so it works.
>>107475886>Calibre should create a database and store that information there. It does, for a loose definition of database.>Why would it need to duplicate your actual data? Surely it just uses some database internally.My opinion is that its author doesn't trust end users not to screw with the files after it's stored paths to them. Having worked both with and around end users for decades, I can't bring myself to say he's wrong about them.
>>107475875>in itNot in it, anon, but behind its back; that's the test.
>>107475918If I fuck with the files afterwards, it is my issue, and it should allow me to
>>107475918I still don't get it. If a user deletes a file afterwards or something, that's their problem. The database could choose to just drop the entry if the path is no longer valid or something.
>>107475927>>107475932Anons, you may be sensible people, and I am a paragon of fairness, but when it comes to end users, we are in the minority.I can understand doing it the way he did, even when I'd prefer he hadn't.
>>107475918>My opinion is that its author doesn't trust end users not to screw with the files after it's stored paths to them.he's talked about it a lotpeople complained about it for over a decade at this point so it's part of the official faqhttps://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#why-doesn-t-calibre-let-me-store-books-in-my-own-folder-structurethe first sentence sums it up>The whole point of calibre’s library management features is that they provide a search and sort based interface for locating books that is much more efficient than any possible folder scheme you could come up with for your collection.
>>107476281I can imagine his smug pajeet face as he wrote that
>>107476329Anyone who has had to cleanup behind a person who used the file system as a poor man's database for months or years would tell you the same thing.
>>107453180That's why I use Readest. It can even sync with koreader.
>>107476329lel
>>107443945The guy who created this is a friggin genius. It literally does everything for the most obscure and depreciated e-readers and also removes Adobe DRM at the same time, lets you store, tag, organize books easily. I doubt anybody else has the talent to compete with this. In fact I remember 15 years ago some uppity tech bros wanted to compete with it and not a single one of them succeded.Been using this for 15 years now and it's always gotten the job done for free.
>>107479790>t. Covid Goy
>>107480358> 10 year old threadYou are the carbon copy of a 10 year old redditor. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3nny2q/is_calibre_and_fbreader_seriously_the_only_ebook/ And yes, until today there is no better alternative to Calibre and there never will be one.
>>107480461>YUR CRITICIZING MY JEETWARE SAAR YU ARE A REDDIT SAARkys
>>107480624> no arguments > no product > no code> resorts to racist expletives looks like we found a wigger in the wild
>>107468561>>107469770owari da
> creates the best ereader software known to mankind> refuses to upgrade to Python 3 vows to maintain Python 2 by himself> 20 years down the line his software is still GOATed
>>107482093Sure thing Covid
>>107482093
Calibre has become for Ebooks what Winrar is for zipped and rared files.
>>107443945I just did a script in python that transform a .txt file into an epub that I can send to google playbooks
>all these replies>no mention of emacsWhy do I even come to this board anymore?nov.el is all you need for epubs. It's the best epub reader. Before you ask yes it handles .pdf files and .cbz just fine as well. You need like 3 packages total and you've already got a better ebook reader than any of these bloated applications most people use.
>>107483656pic related. nov.el mode with an epub open and pdf-tools with a random pdf file open inside of emacs. Emacs has built in bookmarks and pretty much everything else you need/want. I also suggest using the dashboard package to quickly browse through latest bookmarks and files at start up. You don't even need anything for .cbz files because emacs supports it by default. It can open any zip/rar file and display the images inside easily. Although, with like 4 lines of code in your init.el you can make it nicer with keybinds for things like jumping to next page and TOC.For epubs with nov.el you can jump around to TOC with 't'. Navigate pages with "n" and "p". Of course you can set the keybinds to whatever you want. Same goes for pdf files. I also map hjkl keys to the usual vim functions for reading mode. CAPS to ctrl for all the usual emacs stuff (I don't like evil mode).Trust me. I spent years trying everything for e-books, pdfs and manga. Emacs is the best thing going.
>>107483656>>107483756Forgot link: https://depp.brause.cc/nov.el/
How well does Calibre work with sadpanda?
>>107483756Calibre has built in retard protection though. Emacs fucks up or you fuck it up and your entire library is at stake.
>>107483887>your entire library is at stake.Do you think it's magically going to delete all your files or something?
>>107485240Maybe, if I accidentally hit Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Left_arrow when I meant to hit Ctrl-Alt-< .
>>107444152>Indian FLOSS dev doesn't adjust to the boomer philosophyPlease retire to Vietnam and stop buying homes
>>107443945Sending books to e-readers is 2012 tech. Nowadays you should run kavita, booklore, or calibre-web-automated in docker and use koreader to access the opds catalogue they expose. Download from your server onto your e-reader. You can even sync progress with the e-reader so you can pick up the book where you left off on your phone/computer.
>>107486344>all this bullshit>when you could simply transfer files to the device like God intendedWhy are you newfags so retarded and why can't you use proper tools like rsync?>>107485280>be retard>delete files on purpose>blame the softwareEvery time. This is the same type of person that runs sudo rm -rf and then claims the OS is flawed.
>>107486383Rsync doesn't sync reading progress
>>107486563That's bloat
>>107443945Calibre is the original jeetware.
>>107443945What purpose does Calibre serve? AI replaces books.
>>107486987>AI replaces booksWhat does this even fucking mean?
>>107487025it's a low quality shitpost at best, possibly bait to derail the thread
>>107487025If you have a question? Ask AI. It will answer—interactive. Chat. If you wish to read a fiction? AI will provide—simply ask and you will receive. Not generic trash—personalized quality literature. AI is the future. AI replaces everything we once thought fundamental.
>>107450983you can just press i to toggle inverted mode if you want to see pictures, also there's an actual dark mode for the UI now,
>>107483756zathura works just fine with like one plugin for epub support. and i use vim btw
>>107443945If you just want the conversion utilities, you can use calibre's CLI, which is still pigfat and slow (python), but doesn't require a GUI to work>the utility is called ebook-convert if you didn't already know
Bros, I'm using kitty I wish I wouldn't use jeetware, especially from covid goyim, but it's the only one that can properly render images
>>107482093W/thread
>>107469770>>107468561seems like he's adding support within his plugin system to call to llm api's, guess it's a feature request since it only adds stuff to call some of the major llm api's >>107471653it doesn't seem to add anything extra
>>107443945>Are there any non-bloated, non-jeeted alternatives to Calibre?No. Caibre does a fucking billion things and everyone uses a different subset of those things. If you only use one or two very specific features of Calibre, there might be a replacement that isn't shit, but it's a tossup and it's not going to work for the vast majority of other Calibre users. It's a shame because Calibre is complete dogshit, but building a competitor with feature parity would be a herculean task at this point.
>>107450330anon thinks epub has bad formatting because his pirated ebooks were made with shitty ocr. the solution would be something like no-intro or redump but for books instead of games. unfortunately the ebook scene doesnt have the same autism manpower behind it that game emulation does.standardebooks.org shows us the full quality that epub can achieve but its only a limited selection of public domain books, and there will never be anything based in there like the international jew etc, only good goyim books. still worth a check though.
>>107479790not a genius but he's the only guy who has actually put the effort in and maintained it, there's been plenty of attempts to replace calibre due to kovid and his ways alongside the dependency hell calibre is, none ever got anywhere close to feature parity >>107483596winrar has plenty of alternatives that do everything winrar does, calibre doesn't
>>107487904Terminals should not render images at all. The idea would immediately fill you with revulsion if you were born in the 20th century.
>>107488820ascii art is a type of image
>>107488913Kill yourself
>>107486344Fuck off with docker. Fuck.Jesus Horatio Fucking Christ. It's an ereader don't connect it to anything. It doesn't need networking. USB in and dump stuff on it manually or via Calibre. End of. Simples.>B-but calibre copies muh files waaah.Stops you tards moving them, losing them and then having a pissing fit when you can't find them.Fuck.
>>107488818> not a geniusHe is absolutely a genius. He was interested in Quantum Physics so he did a PhD in Quantum Physics. Then he decided to become a SWE , and ended up producing two pieces of software that have become SotA for their respective fields. All on his own btw. with no funds and while shitting on the entire community whenever they tried to bully him into doing something he didn't want to. If you look up stories about him it's him telling people to go fuck themselves and then succeeding 5+ years later. This is how people on this board "wish" they could be in real life.
