Huge shout-out to Kovid Goyal’s Calibre! I’ve been expanding my use of Calibre for months and finally decided to try out the “Fetch News” functionality this past week. I was floored! I have over 50 news sources that auto-fetch every day. It took me awhile to refine the sources that work, but now I can read all my news natively in Calibre.
I’ve been working on debugging why some of the news sources fail to fetch to learn more about Calibre and to design my own fetching for custom news sources. But, I’m a programming newb so that will take me awhile
On a related note, another Calibre feature that has helped me organize my life is “Virtual Libraries”. I was finally able to separate my library into 3 categories that enable me to stay focused. For me these were:
- Hobby Reading
- News & Magazines
- Study and Resources It takes almost no time at all to set up this functionality.
Thank you Kovid and everyone who contributes to this amazing OS project!
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Also, if you like to view by covers, here is what it looks like in Cover Grid Layout!
I’m very excited about the disk defragmentation tool being added and the new grocery shopping price comparator matrix. This is a fantastic ereader.
Oh I need to check these out - had no idea. Thanks for sharing
I’m preeeetty sure that’s sarcasm
Oh yeah, and Kovid posts a tracker for most used news sources so you can see what works and what other people are enjoying. https://calibre-ebook.com/dynamic/recipe-usage
That’s awesome, look forward to trying it out.
Oooo foss propaganda browser
Who in FOSS hurt you?
no one, but apparently the news did.
Didnt know about this! FANTASTIC STUFF
Is there a good mobile workflow for this?
Not sure whether this would meet you or anyone competent’s criteria for “good”, but here is mine:
- Syncthing my Calibre Library folder on my primary PC
- Mobius Sync to my iPhone
- Load books (saved in main folder by author name sortable by date modified) or news (they’re saved in “calibre” folder by publication name) to iOS Books app or PDF in native Files app
That way I load whatever I am currently reading.
I recommend the PDF Expert app by Readdle. I’ve never paid a cent for the pro features, but I like the free dark mode.
Calibre is fantastic software.
Wow, that name is familiar! I had no idea that the maintainer of Calibre is also the maintainer of kitty (a terminal emulator). Someone is busy!
Wow I did not expect to get dropped into a Python script editor when I clicked on New Recipe → Switch to advanced mode 😂
Is Goyal still trying to maintain python 2 by himself? That thread was very funny a few years ago https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1714107
I hope not. I see the Arch packager there, and I’m not sure if they’d have continued to package calibre after Arch got rid of Python 2.
I don’t enjoy how Calibre works. The way it manages its library in a folder separate to where/how I store my ebooks rubs me the wrong way. It also seems to like adding itself to metadata and messing with stylesheets.
I gotta admit though, nothing else even comes close to replacing it.
