Indeed that was me in the other thread on book managers, so to be fair people aren’t raving about it - only I am haha!

BookOrbit is doing pretty well for me so far with comics. Seems to have manga options about reverse reading direction.

Even better for books too. Can do koreader opds and email books as well. (I have a kobo so I haven’t tried the kindle-orientated email, but I assume it’s ez pz)

Very good metadata ingestion. And the book/comic libraries aren’t in different silo’d worlds like they are with Calibre and its derivatives.

I’m pretty pleased so far, have found some niggles but nothing bad. And the good stuff plenty outweighs anything else. It’s all ready to go, I switched libraries quickly. And it ate up my old library with its different (not as good) naming style and realigned it automatically, which was nice.

I’ve got BookOrbit and Audiobookshelf both going. They both can be hosted securely (locked down compose file with read-only, non-root user, etc.) and use Postgres as their DBs, both key features.

I added in BookOrbit to try since it has kobo sync and koreader sync that Audiobookshelf lacks.

I moved books from Audiobookshelf to get BookOrbit going and there was a learning curve to get the UI to do it optimally for me, but I eventually got it to work for me. BookOrbit has the ability to write metadata to the files themselves, which most things lack. Very nice for portability.

There’s a folder BookOrbit imports from and you can set it to populate metadata automatically - seems strongly built for an automated library system.

Both have been very stable. I’d say BookOrbit is the better one - and it supports audiobooks too. Audiobookshelf handles multiple libraries (like books and comics) in a clunky way (have to switch between them like they’re completely different silo’d libraries - much like how Calibre handles them). BookOrbit has them separated but easy to see they exist and you can mix and match them in a collection or something. Better way to handle it.

I use the desktop application Calibre to convert books as needed, but BookOrbit will automatically generate kobo epubs from epubs when syncing so I need not worry about kepub prep.

Lastly, I chose BookOrbit to try over others because Grimmory needs a ton of RAM, Kavita had features behind a paywall, some other one is comic-focused, and the Calibre web iterations give off the vibe of a lot of tapes the inside to make them work; I had big doubts Calibre Web Auto would be able to be run non-root and read-only. Chose Audiobookshelf originally because of the Calibre mess and other options didn’t exist or were much less established.

Edit: lore drop: BookOrbit is a feature copy of Booklore but written not in Java (I think JS), and Grimmory is a community fork of Booklore after its creator fell into AI psychosis.

I have seent that in my searches [ https://github.com/naleo/audiobookshelf.koplugin ], but I decided to go for something that has it natively since sometimes the plugins get björked by updates (from my experience with gnome and its plugins)

But I will say, Audiobookshelf is superior for its purpose: audiobooks and podcasts. If I wanted that first I’d slap the plugin on to be happy with books/comics and kobos, but I wanted book/comics first so I chose a diff path - abs ain’t bad!

Ah, I see I am in the presence of a preeminent N64 titty connoisseur

First date fit includes underwear??

Orrrrrr

Can’t help but here’s a rant on people asking LLMs to “explain their reasoning” which is impossible because they can never reason (not meant to be attacking OP, just attacking the “LLMs think and reason” people and companies that spout it):

LLMs are just matrix math to complete the most likely next word. They don’t know anything and can’t reason.

Anything you read or hear about LLMs or “AI” getting “asked questions” or “explain its reasoning” or talking about how they’re “thinking” is just AI propaganda to make you think they’re doing something LLMs literally can’t do but people sure wish they could.

In this case it sounds like people who don’t understand how LLMs work eating that propaganda up and approaching LLMs like there’s something to talk to or discern from.

If you waste egregiously high amounts of gigawatts to put everything that’s ever been typed into matrices you can operate on, you get a facsimile of the human knowledge that went into typing all of that stuff.

It’d be impressive if the environmental toll making the matrices and using them wasn’t critically bad.

TLDR; LLMs can never think or reason, anyone talking about them thinking or reasoning is bullshitting, they utilize almost everything that’s ever been typed to give (occasionally) reasonably useful outputs that are the most basic bitch shit because that’s the most likely next word at the cost of environmental disaster

The whole joke plays into a terminally horny me-me emoji copypasta that people liked to crank out a few years ago - making it “moldy”! The point is the emojis! Here’s one for dickmas that takes it to 11:

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You def get it Ur blasted, leaving the club at close with yo best bitches, and you’re responsible so you get ya ride. The app says ya ride is a Kia Chevy Juke and y’all’s abs cooked but one of yous is tryin hard cause you n yo best bitches don’t wanna get kidnapped Also you hit the club in March so it’s cold af at 4 am

I’d guzzle

Dipshits don’t even get it’s this based on this painting https://musee-magnin.fr/en/node/19 which is in a French museum, about the gods of Olympus, and includes the lyre you see in the recreation. It’s not the last supper which is in Italy and not in France. Similar framing of course - clearly on purpose - but who cares. What dumbasses, outrage machine go burrr

Yea he got a soul now, I would be too 😩😩

Furiously masturbating on a train too, I see

emgimneer rule

You should look him up on your school computer

alternate option, such deep gameplay