9to5LinuxCalibre 9.5 E-Book Manager Introduces a New Tool to Remove Unused Images
Calibre 9.4 Adds “Reading Stats” to the E-Book Viewer to Show Reading Progress
Calibre 9.3 E-Book Manager Improves Support for the Hanvon N10 e-Reader
Calibre 9.2 Ebook Manager Improves the Bookshelf View, Ebook Viewer, and More
NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real NerdsCalibre 9.0 arrives with a bookshelf view, smarter editing, and better Linux scrolling
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/01/calibre-9-0/
Calibre 9.0 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released with New Bookshelf View
GuibuuUna cosa es estar en contra de la integración sin ton ni son de la IA en cualquier producto, de las empresas sin ética que entrenan sus modelos con información obtenida ilícitamente, de las dudas razonables medioambientales sobre los nuevos centros de datos que se están construyendo para dar servicio a esta tecnología, de la calidad en algunas de sus respuestas o del problema del «AI slop» que está inundando la red.
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AnthonyDefinitely read this whole thread about the eBook manager calibre adding AI slop to "chat with books", and why that's a horrible move that immediately destroys trust in calibre. Here are some highlights I especially appreciated:
Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them. Anything about presentation, form, perspective, voice, is irrelevant to that view. Books are no longer art, they're ingots of tin to be melted down.
It is completely irrelevant to me whether this new slopware is opt-in or opt-out. Its mere presence and endorsement fundamentally undermines that stance, that it is good, actually, if readers and authors can exist in relationship to each other without also being under the control of a extractive mindset that sees books as mere vehicles, unimportant as artistic works in and of themselves.
https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115671289658145064
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #eBooks #eBookManager #calibre #AISlop
Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them. Anything about presentation, form, perspective, voice, is irrelevant to that view. Books are no longer art, they're ingots of tin to be melted down.
It is completely irrelevant to me whether this new slopware is opt-in or opt-out. Its mere presence and endorsement fundamentally undermines that stance, that it is good, actually, if readers and authors can exist in relationship to each other without also being under the control of a extractive mindset that sees books as mere vehicles, unimportant as artistic works in and of themselves.
https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115671289658145064
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #eBooks #eBookManager #calibre #AISlop
Cassandra is only carbon now (@[email protected])
One last thing about the Calibre thing for now, then I promise I'll take a break until I can coalesce some of these thoughts into something more coherent. Anyway, @[email protected] drew an interesting contrast between Calibre adding AI conversations and KeePassXC allowing slopcode in the repo.
BookA friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.
Ughhhh, et tu calibre?
New features
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
Release: 8.16.1 04 Dec, 2025; or here on their GitHub
Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don't follow closely. I wasn't aware they'd been sipping from the poisoned chalice.
#calibre #FOSS #OpenSource #books #eBooks #eBookManager #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill
New features
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
Release: 8.16.1 04 Dec, 2025; or here on their GitHub
Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don't follow closely. I wasn't aware they'd been sipping from the poisoned chalice.
#calibre #FOSS #OpenSource #books #eBooks #eBookManager #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill