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by dml2135 62 days ago
There was some whole blowup with Booklore over it being vibecoded by a single maintainer recently. I think the project has changed ownership since then, but be cautious.

I use Calibre + Calibre Web. Definitely a bit old and clunky, but reliable.

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Booklore was nuked by the maintainer after the blowup and no longer exists. Mostly it was not vibecoded, just the last few releases. The other contributors have since forked it as grimmory and have already done a first release that removes the telemetry etc. Grimmory is great imo and seems to be in good hands now.
Ditto for Calibre Web. Clunky, but effective.

I wish there was a way to add books to a ‘shelf’ (a collection, which you can sync to a device) without having to open each book and add. I want to go Select + Select + Select > Add > Sync.