colibri

I'm working on a self-hostable ebook library (https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri), and currently tinkering with searching over book content. Have you written about your approach to search somewhere, perhaps? Would be very interested in learning how others go about this. Kudos for DocGlobin, looks great :-)

> We just started working on a full book app that will be a private book diary, along with recommendations and insights based on your Book DNA. Think Goodreads, but rebuilt for readers who want a private space to track what they read, keep notes, and get truly personalized book recommendations (like Pandora or Spotify for books). Oh! This is very similar to the project I am working on, Colibri[1], a self-hostable ebook library. I'm an avid Shepherd user though, and I would love to make some kind of integration happen… would you be open to a chat?? [1] https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri

An open source, self-hostable ebook library for yourself, and/or family and friends. Will include professional and automatically gathered bibliographical metadata, direct reader connectivity, calibre sync, OPDS, an (optional) public bragging shelf, and high quality packages to go with. If you love reading, want to have an easy way to access your collection, and share it with a few people, this is for you. https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri I’m looking for contributors who would like to help shape Colibri into a counter-approach to big tech; it’s specifically meant to never get monetised, and explore what such software can become.

Im working on a similar project, Colibri (https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri), an app to manage your ebook collection. Librari is looking really slick! Also, It’s always interesting to see how others approach schema selection and customization. If I may, I would suggest adding support for ingesting data from open sources, for example OpenLibrary, WikiData, the LoC API, and a bunch of others. Since you’re building a for-profit project, you can probably also tap the billed services to get high-quality metadata. But even with OpenLibrary alone, you have access to a treasure trove of information that spares users from having to type off things from their books. That allows for bulk import, high-res covers, and so on. I’m currently working on the metadata reconciliation engine in Colibri, so feel free to check out the source every once in a

Funny thing. I have built something similar recently, that is a 2.1-compliant authorisation server in TypeScript[0]. I did it by hand, with some LLM help on the documentation. I think it took me about two weeks full time, give or take, and there’s still work to do, especially on the testing side of things, so I would agree with your estimate. I’m going to take a very close look at your code base :) [0] https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/blob/next/packages/oau...

Semantic search is planned as part of book content search, look here: https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/issues/45 LLMs might make sense to interact with your collection, so that could find its way into the app at some point. Plus, I've been experimenting with generating llms.txt for all routes to point your own LLM to. On the other hand, I'm concerned with LLMs quite intensely at work, so it's nice to spend some time with plain, honest-to-god SQL for now!

So, Colibri is intended to be a companion to Calibre, maybe do like 80% of what it does, but not all of it. Also, I want Colibri's core to have a fully clean collar: It handles your personal books, but will not be able to automatically de-DRM books and such. However, the way book assets work, you're of course free to just attach an encrypted AZW3 file to a book! > Are these ebooks supported and does it only supports metadata, what about the content search for these ebooks? Have you seen https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/issues/45? Content search is planned, but requires access to a book's text content, obviously. My recommendation would be to use Calibre to strip DRM and convert the books to epub/mobi files, and import those to Colibri; this has the general benefit of ensuring access to content you bought without depending on Amazon's

https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/ Colibri—a self-hostable web application to manage your (and your family's) ebook library, intended as a companion to Calibre. I want it to be a friendly, simple, capable, opinionated app to review your books, add metadata to them, get them onto your reader, share them with family and (few) friends, create a public shelf for bragging, connect with Goodreads etc., and exchange comments and reviews on books. This is explicitly not intended to ever be monetised, and I enjoy all the implications that has on the design. Colibri is as much a tool I personally want to use, as it is a study in small-audience user interfaces, and the quest to build the perfect book catalog schema. I'm looking for fellow book-loving people to work on Colibri, to create the best personal digital library possible. If you're inter

But currently it's from openlibrary.org right? https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/blob/next/apps/app/src...

Hey, this is cool! I’m working on an open source, self-hostable ebook library, made to solve the 80%-usecase of Calibre. I also built a command line interface to interact with its database, but this is stock-Full of nice ideas. I might steal some! :) If you’re curious: https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri (I have been working on this for years on and off, but now it’s finally going somewhere. Still not usable, though.)