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What's your ebook download automation pipeline? And what do you use for library management — calibre, calibre-web, something else?

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[–] fonix232@fedia.io 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

why would I try a book REQUESTING system when I'm working on my own AIO solution?

[–] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

One of the benefits of Free Software is that you can copy and improve the good parts of other Free software into your own, reducing the required effort.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 2 points 10 hours ago

Uhm, no.

Only if the licence allows. I personally go for A/GPLv3 wherever I can because I don't want corporations to just take and not contribute back. But that means I can't just copy MIT/Apache software, need to do my own implementation from scratch. Which I prefer anyway.