These are all optional features for people who want to use them.
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2026
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why the fuck would you want an AI generated book cover
How am I supposed to know? And what's with the language? Are you right in the head? Get therapy maybe.
Edit: Just reread my comment and should have clarified I meant "you" as in third person not you in particular
I already understand that part. I am more concerned about your use of profanity.
It's not a feature, it's a bug.
How do these people not vomit looking at ai slop images? I don't understand. I'd rather spend a few minutes searching for an image I like than generate it. It makes no sense to me.
They do vomit but they aren't aware why. Look how people live in concrete boxes, surrounded by CARS, asphalt and plastics. All vomit friendly. Yet they persist. They don't know themselves.
The open source world adopting closed source AI integrations is the most egregious behavior to me.
The guy on Calibre has had many hot takes since forever. The most amusing one was the idea of forking Python 2 instead of migrating to Python 3.
Counterproductive idea, sure, but I feel that forking python 2 is at least more in line with open source principles. Incorporating the CSAM machines into Calibre is bad in every way.
I loved Calibre before all the AI stuff. I've decided to fork the project and gut out all of the AI features. I'm tenatively calling it Calibre- (Calibre minus) just for the giggles. Not sure if other people care about this or not, but an AI-gutted calibre is coming.
I think you should call it Librarian.
Thanks for this and I see arcalibre too. I’m a bit worried that neither have updated in a number of months now, but I’ll see if I can help out there before continuing on with my own thing.
Most of these "project-but-without-" forks tend to be abandoned rather quickly unfortunately. Maintaining compatibility with a large codebase that is not yours is not the fun part of software development.
I would say clbre and arcalibre are already abandoned, looking at the activity on these repos (none in clbre, and issues/PRs piling up in arcalibre). If you can envision yourself still dedicating your time to this endeavor 5 years from now, you might as well move forward with your own thing.
I mean, that's a good point, but it's a fundamental part of the Fee part of FOSS. I don't "see" myself doing anything 5 years from now but it doesn't necessarily mean it wouldn't be worth the effort. But you also have a good point. They do seem dead, and I don't want to add another dead project on top of the others. But I am pretty serious about having calibre-like thing that won't incorporate AI. Does that mean I should start a new thing, or quasi-robinhood calibre into a new thing. I don't know yet, but I do get your point.
I might have phrased that badly with the 5 years thing. Obviously no one doing open source owes anyone else their time or effort. I do think that projects which stay afloat for a significant amount of time are those where the maintainers keep using the software for their own purpose.
In any case, I wish you good luck with that project, and might become a user if it comes to fruition too.
Yeah, I get what you mean. And thanks. I'm going to give the rereading Project a chance to respond to my message, but after a few days I'm going to move forward. I've already gutted the AI features, I just need to fix what yanking that out broke and then fix the ui.
If you’re into self hosting at all check out caliber-web, which uses a calibre-compatible db/backend but a web-based fronted. I switched about 3 years ago after importing my old calibre db and never looked back (household is doing around 90 books/year)
I'll checkout Calibre-web. It seems like it does a lot of what I need it to do!
Interesting. Please let us know about your project once it's ready.
Oh. I guess that explains why I just spent half a day debugging its installation on my server.
Previously it said the AI stuff is optional and doesn't start doing anything until you configure it. It's disabled by default.
why
Gross, well I guess I can look at some of the forks and see if they are less disgusting.
Uuu, an integrated slop reader?
It'll even read the books for you so it can write more books you don't have to read.
Calibre fork withou AI and fully Qt based when?