As best I can tell there's no licensing information in the repo
Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
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Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#122Anyone else having trouble building and running it (Ubuntu 23.10)? > thread 'main' panicked at libcalibre/src/infrastructure/domain/book/repository.rs:20:62: called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: ()
Yes — sorry! I hadn't pushed local changes yet. I didn't expect a big reception! `main` is up-to-date now and SHOULD be building. Feel free to email me (phil at denhoff dot ca) if you run into issues, or add a GitHub issue.
I would be glad to help you set up GitHub Actions to build branches if that interests you. On the one hand, I'm for sure not a GHA (nor rust nor bun) ninja, but OTOH I do have a passion for painless builds :-)
Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really, kitty was forked from putty. Calibre afaik was created from scratch. Those are two entirely different circumstances from which to start from and it’s inevitable they would have vastly divergent results even in the same hands.
No kitty is not a fork of putty. Thats a different kitty. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty vs https://github.com/cyd01/KiTTY
I stand corrected.
Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trust me, I'm tech savvy but I tried Calibre once and I couldn't figure it out, so I just gave up.
What part couldn't you figure out? Where you editing ebooks or just managing a library? Not a contributor here, just curious. Edit: I've read a few more comments and some a free with you, while others think it works fine. I'm wondering if there's something about the UI that clicks with some but not others.
I'll bite I guess. I use Calibre pretty regularly. I think a general way to put it is that it's not for "casuals". To understand a lot of the functionality outside of the basic inventory management stuff, you have to be a little bit of an enthusiast. For some examples: You have to know about different ereaders and their formats and how they differ, the differences between metadata sources, and dozens and dozens of configuration options if you're trying to convert a book to work well on your device.
Also, there's definitely something "off" when it comes to using it intuitively. I have to devote a lot of brain power to searching for functionality AND trying to comprehend exactly how those pieces of functionality are going to affect my library data.
Maybe it's too powerful of a tool up front or something. It could benefit from a "basic view" maybe?
None of these are complaints from me, I'm a happy user. I'll just echo some other commenters in wishing for a more robust network interface (whether that's just an API, or a more hashed out front end). I'd like to easily share my library with people or just other devices while on-the-go, and Calibre has all the device formatting functionality built-in.
Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
> [Calibre] never really adapted into the whole self-hosted era Could you explain that in more detail? It seems to me that Calibre is totally self hosted. I give an example. I use Calibre to import ebooks as epub (if they are not already epub, which they usually are,) maybe change their metadata and add a cover if they don't have one. The books go to Calibre's directory and then I sync to my phone using syncthing, li…
>All of that seems self hosted to me, or do you mean having a server somewhere at home or on the internet with the ebook collection? I''m not the person you replied to, but having it run on a server somewhere is exactly what "self hosted" means to me.
So maybe https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html even if it seems that the database must be on the same machine the UI runs on, or be copied to a server with all the books. That could be the criticism of the parent post.
Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#126As best I can tell there's no licensing information in the repo
Fixed: it's MIT licensed
Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#127does it mangle japanese titles/authors by transcribing to pinyin chinese like calibre does? do the drm plugins work? might check it out and switch.
I’ve been caught out by that recently - it’s not considered a bug! With the advised workaround changing Calibre’s interface into Japanese?!
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#128Does anyone have advice to help my friend who has a few-hundred-k backup ebooks on a drive somewhere? I realize a calibre-style interface for this many books is out of the question, but I always felt bad that he can't easily access the material because just doing an ls or opening the directory in the file manager slows his system down. Has anyone found any solutions for this? Indexing the content isn't required, but would be an awesome plus.
Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#129Very nice! It’s great to see another Tauri + Svelte project too. I’ve been building a video editor with that stack for a while now and it’s been pretty awesome.
Re: Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
#130Interesting! For a while now, I’ve started working on a similar project with the same general idea, although I settled for SvelteKit and browsers instead of native apps: https://github.com/project-kiosk/kiosk I just can’t keep motivation up long enough to finish it…
it looks great. keep up the work, i would like to use it