I’ve said this in a few other contexts too, but Grimmory/Booklore, while imperfect is loads easier and nicer to use than CW or CWA. You aren’t managing a calibre db + a separate web layer, and this meant I could tighten up my organization significantly since I wasn’t required to be on my host machine.

For me the primary benefits above the interface is the metadata control you have from the web UI. You can dump all those files into a single ingest folder and it will attempt to match metadata with the ability to apply all, or pick and choose as you see fit.

From what I’ve understood, the recent drama was mostly about an immature creator rather than rampant AI generated code.

I will say, even given all the drama around the original creator in the last few weeks, Booklore has a solid front end experience, is quite flexible, and generally stable app. It’s a bummer the creator acted childishly (again and again), but I know I’ll be looking to use whatever the v2 of this becomes.

No, but it’s good to corroborate it!

I did this switch a few months back when Readarr really started to fall apart on me. Booklore has been excellent for my normal ebook library, epub, and a few pdfs. The exception being larger comic files which I find it struggles with. I’ve been using it directly connected via OPDS and it’s syncing service to KOReader, and it’s been awesome.

Overall, I highly recommend Booklore at this point!

I’m constantly recommending Neuromancer. Great read.

I just finished Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, Oliver Darkshire, which was pretty enjoyable. Overall it leaned very into the satire side of fantasy. Felt nicely inspired by Pratchett. Lots of footnotes. My only criticism is that the plot felt wobbly, without real direction. Even though, I’d recommend it!

Started What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher which I’m enjoying so far.

Yeah, worried it might not even after looking the syntax up. That’s no better, is it?

I think the

really got me. But I agree other than some pretty dark themes, it was very well written.

Just finally finished, Mountain of Black Glass, Tad Williams, and while I enjoyed it, it took me over two months of listening to get it done. The protagonists continued their way through the Otherland, and boy did Williams expound on the details in this book. There was a significant slump in the last third that didn’t pick up until the very end. I’m hoping Sea of Silver Light, is a little quicker.

Other books I’ve finished lately:

• The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins - wild, weird, and one of the darker books I’ve read as of like. Enjoyable, but hard to recommend.
• Audition For the Fox, Martin Cahill - somewhat unimpressed with this novella. The combination of very flowery language, and no stakes meant for a somewhat slow read for a very short book.

I’m currently reading Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, Oliver Darkshire, which is very Pratchett-esc. Lots of witty footnotes, and fun village humor. Pretty light reading, but enjoyable!

Always love your write-ups! Keep at 'em :)

I’ve currently got progress syncing through Calibre-Web-Automated, but I’d also tried it via KoInsights which I’m using for syncing reading stats. I’m in the process of migrating to my library to BookLore which also has a sync server.

I’ve been synching progress and stats between a pair of devices! It’s been great since it runs well on my haul broken kindle & my android.

There is some(maybe a bit more than some) setup time to get used to the layers of menus, but it’s a pretty robust app.

I hadn’t seen this analysis. Thanks for sharing!

Oh sick. This seems to have the request feature I’m looking for. Thank you for the recco! I’ll be checking it out.

What’s Ephemera? I haven’t heard of it before.

I’ve checked out Booklore before, but Calibre-web-automated + calibre has been working well. The feature this is missing, and the feature from Readarr I use, is a “wanted” list.

I mean, it’s not an issue, but it has been fun to build out and use. We’re also going to the library in town just about weekly, so the service may be overkill if you don’t want it.

Other than it being convenient to access your books from multiple machines, a big feature of a server based solution is for my wife to download what she wants from our library.

That’s a fair POV. Readarr has never been the dashboard for me, rather a maintained list of “wanted” books.

Are you telling Prowlarr to snag individual books as you come across them?

What’s your bash script doing? Moving and renaming files into the proper format/location?

Can calibre-web-automated handle the metadata look-up? I’m using it as my web frontend for serving books.

I don’t mind going and finding individual books from IRC or other sources, but being able to subscribe to a centralized, “I want to read this” list is the feature I’m looking to replace at the end of the day.