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I updated my evergreen guide on setting up Calibre to remove DRM from ebooks on Linux. Fathom says this is my top rated post and I'm the first result on Google if you search 'calibre remove drm linux' so thats cool.
https://michaelharley.net/posts/2023/01/10/how-to-setup-calibre-to-remove-drm-from-ebooks-on-linux/
🛑 CRITICAL CVE-2026-26064 in calibre <9.3.0: Path traversal in extract_pictures enables arbitrary file writes & remote code execution on Windows. Patch to 9.3.0+ ASAP. User interaction required. Details: https://radar.offseq.com/threat/cve-2026-26064-cwe-22-improper-limitation-of-a-pat-71d04e0e #OffSeq #Calibre #Vuln #InfoSec
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Critical threat: CVE-2026-26064: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal
#Calibre 9.0 Open-Source Ebook Manager Released with New Bookshelf View, Momentum-Based Scrolling on #Linux, and More https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-0-open-source-ebook-manager-released-with-new-bookshelf-view
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Screenshot of Calibre 9.0 showing the new Bookshelf view.
If you use #CalibreWeb and are getting a database error after upgrading #Calibre, there's a temporary fix:
@annathepiper there is an #AI-free #fork called #Clibre (cuz it's #Calibre minus AI)…
In a GitHub issue about adding LLM features:
I definitely think allowing the user to continue the conversation is useful. In my own use of LLMs I tend to often ask followup questions, being able to do so in the same window will be useful.In other words he likes LLMs and uses them himself; he's probably not adding these features under pressure from users. I can't help but wonder whether there's vibe code in there.
In the bug report:
Wow, really! What is it with you people that think you can dictate what I choose to do with my time and my software? You find AI offensive, dont use it, or even better, dont use calibre, I can certainly do without users like you. Do NOT try to dictate to other people what they can or cannot do."You people", also known as paying users. He's dismissive of people's concerns about generative AI, and claims ownership of the software ("my software"). He tells people with concerns to get lost, setting up an antagonistic, us-versus-them scenario. We even get scream caps!
Personally, besides the fact that I have a zero tolerance policy about generative AI, I've had enough of arrogant software developers. Read the room.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #calibre #eBooks #eBookManagers #AISlop #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill #dev #tech #FOSS #SoftwareDevelopment
Now AI is fucking with my books. new feature that nobody asked for.
https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new?ref=selfh.st
New features
Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
seems I need to just stop using computers
*Facepalm*
Why, #Calibre, WHY!?
PSA: I'm aware of this fork which strips out the AI: https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre
A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.
Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them. Anything about presentation, form, perspective, voice, is irrelevant to that view. Books are no longer art, they're ingots of tin to be melted down.
It is completely irrelevant to me whether this new slopware is opt-in or opt-out. Its mere presence and endorsement fundamentally undermines that stance, that it is good, actually, if readers and authors can exist in relationship to each other without also being under the control of a extractive mindset that sees books as mere vehicles, unimportant as artistic works in and of themselves.https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115671289658145064
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #eBooks #eBookManager #calibre #AISlop
The AI brand of #Enshitification has come for #Calibre.
https://www.howtogeek.com/calibre-has-finally-given-into-the-ai-trend
Anyone started a fork yet?
Anyone got a workflow for decrypting #Kobo #ebooks without Calibre? #ebook #ereader
New featuresRelease: 8.16.1 04 Dec, 2025; or here on their GitHub
- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"
- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu
- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally
Calibre is one of those pieces of software that I use from time to time but don't follow closely. I wasn't aware they'd been sipping from the poisoned chalice.
#calibre #FOSS #OpenSource #books #eBooks #eBookManager #AIPoisoning #InformationOilSpill