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by unixfg 116 days ago
My favorite use so far has been giving it a copy of my Calibre library. After having it write a few scripts and a skill, I can ask it questions about any book I’m reading.

This week I had it order a series internally chronological.

I could use the search on my Kindle or open Calibre myself, but a Signal message is much faster when it’s already got the SQLite file right there.

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This is interesting. Do you mean this is like chat with your book, or these are books you've already finished reading which you have a query over to ask? And does it search raw book text or metadata?
I add books to Calibre in order to load them on my Kindle. Claw gets the Calibre files, including both metadata.db and full-text-search.db, via Syncthing.

I can ask it to perform metadata updates, since it's a two-way sync, or ask questions about the content.

This is very interesting — what's an example query and metadata update you've made? Now I'm thinking if I would do this.
I am sorry to sound dumb but can’t cursor ai do this same thing? They have .md files with skills and knowledge
I'd imagine you could (never used Cursor myself though). I do a similar thing with my collection of books, but I just use Claude Code.
What's the relevance?
from your phone?