It is one of the ugliest, most complex to configure, pieces of software I’ve ever used. It’s also the best ebook management tool out there. I love Calibre.
I’ve heard Calibre Web has a better UI and experience. Can anyone weigh in on whether that is true? I’m mostly looking for a better way to manage my book library on KOReader (Kindle) than just putting things into 3 directories (reading, to read, read) and using syncthing to copy them to the equivalent folders on my device.
I don’t need to run 2 containers and >10GB. I could just install and run in 10 seconds.
My whole library and metadata is self contained in a single dir. On a fresh OS install I could simply point Calibre to the dir, and off we go.
A rich plugin ecosystem, including deDRM plugins.
I can just ignore the AI stuff (for now, at least)
I’ve used it for close to 2 decades. Familiarity is definitely a factor. And yes, it’s still as ugly as it was 20 years ago. But once you’ve set your workflow up, the UI just kinda melds to the background.
It is one of the ugliest, most complex to configure, pieces of software I’ve ever used. It’s also the best ebook management tool out there. I love Calibre.
I’ve heard Calibre Web has a better UI and experience. Can anyone weigh in on whether that is true? I’m mostly looking for a better way to manage my book library on KOReader (Kindle) than just putting things into 3 directories (reading, to read, read) and using syncthing to copy them to the equivalent folders on my device.
I was planning on setting this up soon, but I heard they’ve been incorporating AI into it. Any reason you’d choose Calibre over Booklore?
Personally, a few reasons.
There’s a fork of Calibre to remove the AI stuff : https://codeberg.org/rereading/arcalibre
https://rereading.space/arcalibre/