calibre

+1 to a Kobo, they cheaper and better than Kindles, with full Calibre support (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre - OSS which has been in development for ~20 years!). The way you install additional software is literally just moving files into folders whilst its plugged into your computer. I'm sure it could handle Tailscale.

As best I can tell Goyal started adding AI-related code to Calibre back in August, merging the LLM tab work from https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/2838, and created the chat widget in November with commit 41d0da4267dc6f7f7e48fb9bb7e8609a2e251cb7. I looked at forking the project myself: the challenges are that it's a very quirky application, its design and implementation doesn't share conventions with any other application, and the build system is complex and unique to Calibre. It's a shame there's no good open source ebook library application with a more conventional design. Shoving AI into everything, even when it defaults to "off" (for now), is getting old.

And that's just what he did until someone showed up to do the grunt work of porting to Python 3, at which point he co-operated with that person and helped make the port happen, just as he said he would. I suggest a more facts based narrative in the future. List of all python3 PRs merged by the developer in minutes to hours: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pulls?q=is%3Apr+py3

>the Calibre developers are not interested I know it was not a criticism but I would like to point out that Calibre seems to be developed also entirely by one person [0]. I understand why they would be hesitant to make big changes that would generate more work for them that would not be seen by most (GUI) users. [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre I just noticed that Calibre is referred to as an eBook manager, which is more in line with what I was talking about in some sense. All of that should fall under `eBook Manager`

Right sidebar on GH has multiple ways to donate to this project: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre

Heh, Kovid had better convert to AGPL since there's a very real chance Amazon is just running epub files through it and sending the results to the Kindle: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/v5.41.0/LICENSE

Several months ago, I built a "stealth" feature that I could use. It hasn't been advertised, and I've been the only user. As I find it useful for myself, I believe others (software developers) may like it too. So, this is the first public post about it, and if it gets any positive feedback, I may put some time into promoting it more. In essence, given that you've opened a GitHub repo (there are ~225k of the more popular ones indexed as of now), you can replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL, and you will find the top alternatives and related projects. For example, here are three popular repos: - https://github.com/rails/rails - https://github.com/vercel/next.js - https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre To test it out, open any of the examples above and replace "github" with "libhunt" within the browser URL. You can also try with any

It's a bit of effort, but you can use Calibre (+ dedrm plugin) to backup your kindle content. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre

It hasn't been upgrading to Python 3 by itself but through the effort of a distro maintainer and other contributors: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author....

How would you feel if someone came out with an article about "echelon's code isn't just bad, it's outright dangerous" and wrote a whole article attacking and shaming you, just because you might benefit from it? Sure you might benefit, but there are much more constructive, kinder ways to do it. Even if he and his code aren't great, Goyal's done a lot of free public service here. Let's not be dicks. If you want to learn about the codebase, here it is https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre

> EDIT: Looks like somebody actually took the initiative to port it to Python 3. For reference, here's the ongoing python 3 port pull request: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870

Yes. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.pyt... https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870 > Yeah there are not a lot of low hanging fruit left. Now one just has to get betas out and have people test them and report bugs. And plugin developers use the betas to port their plugins. But it is going to have to wait until after the webengine migration is done and calibre 4 is released.

That's not true. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.pyt... https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870

I don't think this is correct. In the Calibre repository on Github, there is a page on the progress being made porting to Python 3[0], and a pull request that tracked the progress and has been merged into master[1]. [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.pyt... [1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870