Calibre Replacement Considerations

• nixGL

  26 600 5.1 Nix

  A wrapper tool for nix OpenGL application [maintainer=@guibou]

  

I think installing Calibre is a good use case for installing Nix (www.nixos.org).

Unfortunately, you might also need https://github.com/guibou/nixGL to run graphical apps under Nix. It's a shell script to use the correct OpenGL library.

• Kindle_download_helper

  2 2,432 7.3 Python

  Download all your kindle books script.

Recently I used this fantastic tool to automatically download all my books from Amazon and (optionally) break the DRM. The README is mostly in Mandarin but the important bits are all there + the --help is in English. It's fire and forget, even grabs the right cookies/tokens out of your browser automatically. Got my whole collection downloaded with DRM removed in just a few minutes of setup and waiting.

https://github.com/yihong0618/Kindle_download_helper

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• koreader-sync-server

  8 137 3.2 Lua

  self hostable synchronization service for koreader devices

  

I googled it and it seems that koreader has a selfhostable server that can be used to sync reading positions across devices

https://github.com/koreader/koreader-sync-server

I used koreader years ago. I'll give it a try again. If I like it I'll download the server and check if I can make it work.

• koreader-sync

  1 29 4.1 Python

  Simple implementation of the KOReader position sync server for self-hosting at home which has docker support for arm and amd64 :)

The protocol is simple enough that there are multiple implementations. I like this small one, which does all the necessary things:

https://github.com/b1n4ryj4n/koreader-sync

• Kavita

  206 5,170 9.8 C#

  Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family.

  

Hey, Kavita creator here and noticed you don't have any mentions of Kavita for epub readers. Kavita is not a Calibre replacement, but has a built-in epub/pdf reader along with some series-based organization.

https://www.kavitareader.com/

• ebook-converter

  1 37 10.0 Python

  Commandline tool for converting between several e-books formats, based on Calibre project.

There was a time, when I was so fed up of the Calibre being so bloated, while all I needed was just a convert capabilities, that I started to rip off parts of the Calibre, clean it up, make things simpler, removing unnecessary things and trying to understand what is happening behind the conversion, resulting with ebook-converter[1], which simply do the conversion, without all the management/downloading rss/editing/what have you. It is usable right now, but I'd say it's still somewhere in between alpha and beta stage. You could give it a shot.

[1] https://github.com/gryf/ebook-converter

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