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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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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think I can read books fast enough to make automation attractive either, haha. I break DRM on Calibre with two plugins, books purchased from Kobo, and then organize on Komga after manually dragging the files.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah i read Like 8-12 books per year, at best, it doesn't make sense to automate any aspect of that.