#calibre — Public Fediverse posts

Time for a Come to Jeebus moment: I will never get along with #calibre ebook management.

It's an incredible, capable, venerable piece of software, and my partially blind ass just continuously gets gut punched by its interface hard and often enough that I spent a chunk of this evening picking apart the broken bits of 5 separate Calibre libraries I've tried to maintain over time. All failed.

So, I now have a sanely curated set of named folders on my NAS for ebooks:

./fiction
./fiction/science-fiction
./fiction/science-fiction/robert-a-heinlein
./freemasonry
./freemasonry/audiobooks
./.local
./.local/bin
./art
./art/digital
./art/digital/blender
./history
./history/manuscripts
./history/manuscripts/voynich
./history/transportation
./history/transportation/mbta
./history/espionage
./gaming
./gaming/tabletop
./gaming/tabletop/world-of-darkness
./psychology
./Desktop
./tech
./tech/emacs
./tech/processing
./tech/ai
./tech/rust
./tech/security
./tech/math
./tech/culture
./tech/culture/model-view-culture
./tech/scheme
./tech/languages
./tech/games
./tech/databases
./tech/python
./tech/python/kivy
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds/tracks
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds/code
./tech/python/Music for Geeks and Nerds/code/pyknon
./tech/retro
./tech/retro/amiga
./tech/retro/atari8
./tech/infrastructure-as-code
./tech/php
./tech/lisp

I am pleased with this arrangement.

Sometimes (often?) a nicely arranged #UNIX filesystem is chefs kiss perfect!

Every Free App You Actually Need Explained (Part 1-4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGWSs6laAO0

#OpenSource #freeapps #LibreOffice
#VLC Media Player
#DaVinci Resolve
#OBS Studio
#GIMP
#Audacity
#Blender
#Obsidian
#Scratch
#Godot
#Krita
#Photopea
#Inkscape
#LMMS
#Shotcut / Kdenlive
#KeePassXC
#Thunderbird
#Calibre
#Joplin
#MPV
#Affinity
#ProtonVPN
#Bitwarden
#PDF24 Creator
#LocalSend
#VirtualBox
#Notepad++
#FreeCAD
#Ardour
#WinRAR
#Everything
#Syncthing
#Penpot
#Proton Pass
#KDE Connect
#Parsec
#VSCodium
#Scribus
#HandBrake
#7-Zip
#ShareX
#qBittorrent
#Free Download Manager
#totalcommander

Years ago I set up a Calibre here at home. I revisited this about 2 weeks ago.

https://www.bytevortex.tech/from-calibre-and-runeaudio-to-something-better/

#Blaugust #Blaugust2026 #selfhosting #calibre #runeaudio #audiobookshelf #navidrome

Status update:

Pdf reader with touchscreen control, alongside some pdfs from #HumbleBooksBundle also converted an epub copy of a Agatha Christie novel from #ProjectGutenberg using #calibre to pdf.

Currently no nice way of selecting the pdfs.

Alpha is back in the studio with a ton of new music on #FokuzRecordings, #HospitalRecordings, Soul Deep Recordings, Waterframes Music, and more! https://alpharhythm.com/podcast/2026/5/24/episode-411-lonely-void
#dnb #liquidDnB #AlphaRhythm #Calibre

I just bought my first ebook outside of the Amazon 'ecosystem'! Tracey Nicholls' An Ethics of Improvisation.

- Found it on https://www.ebook.de/de
- Managed it via Calibre
-Added it to Zotero

It was *much more expensive* than on Amazon, but we all know how Amazon keeps their prices so incredibly low, therefore supporting an EU-based infrastructure felt like doing the right thing.

So far it seems a wonderful book.

#deamazon #amazon #opensource #calibre #artisticresearch #improvisation #ethics

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio

Calibre & Chelou:
🎵 No Man Is An Island

#Calibre #Chelou

https://calibre.bandcamp.com/track/no-man-is-an-island

https://open.spotify.com/track/0xbkGnVEJizHWBHHaXbwx8

(Linux news in previous posts of thread)

FOSS NEWS

GIMP Announce Official Snap Package for Ubuntu:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/official-gimp-snap-package-announced

Google's Safe Browsing Flags Open Source Photo App Immich as Dangerous:
https://news.itsfoss.com/google-safe-browsing-flags-immich/
(They hate competition, just the usual...)

Tor Browser's latest alpha removes AI features introduced by Firefox for enhanced privacy:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/tor-browser-s-latest-alpha-removes-ai-features-introduced-by-firefox-for-enhanced-privacy/

digiKam 8.8 adds hierarchical tag import, focus point preview, and new blur tool:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/digikam-8-8-adds-hierarchical-tag-import-focus-point-preview-and-new-blur-tool/

Calibre 8.13 enhances search editing & compatibility with new features and fixes:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/calibre-8-13-enhances-search-editing-and-compatibility-with-new-features-and-fixes/

PeaZip 10.7 released with built-in text & image viewer, and image thumbnails' display:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/peazip-10-7-released-with-built-in-text-and-image-viewer-and-image-thumbnails-display/

Two major security vulnerabilities discovered in 7-Zip, affecting Windows users:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/two-major-security-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-7-zip-affecting-windows-users/

Linux's Favorite Game SuperTuxKart 1.5 Released with Graphics Overhaul and New Features:
https://news.itsfoss.com/supertuxkart-1-5/

Servo 0.0.1 Browser Engine Released:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.0.1-Released
(Nice to see the first version released this quickly, although it's still lacking behind in terms of website compatibility, but it's getting there. We need independent engines/browsers like this one and Ladybird)

Servo's Demo Browser Adds Experimental Mode & More Performance Improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-September-2025-Highlights

Mullvad VPN adds QUIC obfuscation on Android and iOS to bypass firewalls and censorship:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/mullvad-vpn-adds-quic-obfuscation-on-android-and-ios-to-bypass-firewalls-and-censorship/

Making retro DOS gaming simple - the standalone DOSBox Pure Unleashed is out now:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/making-retro-dos-gaming-simple-the-standalone-dosbox-pure-unleashed-is-out-now/

(more FOSS news in comment)

#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #GIMP #Immich #Tor #TorBrowser #digiKam #Calibre #PeaZip #7Zip #SuperTuxKart #Servo #MullvadVPN #Mullvad #DOSBox #DOSBoxPure #DOSBoxPureUnleashed #DOS #DOSGaming #ImageManipulation #Browser #WebBrowser #VPN #FileCompression #ImageEditing #Ebook #EbookReader #Gaming #FOSSGaming #FOSSGame #FosseryTech

Das Archiv des phrack-Magazins lässt sich einfach herunterladen. Es sind tar-gezippte txt-Dateien: https://archives.phrack.org/tgz/

Wie krieg ich die geschickt ins Calibre, so mit Metadaten und so?

Einfach die .tar.gz importieren führte nicht zum erhofften Ergebnis. Einfach die .txt importieren lässt die Metadaten außen vor.

#phrack #calibre #metadaten

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio

Calibre & Chelou:
🎵 Doing It For You

#Calibre #Chelou
#newRelease 🆕 single

https://signaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/doing-it-for-you-no-man-is-an-island

https://open.spotify.com/track/3GKtleytcBPOeIdIZEUVMK