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Colibri is a simple web application to manage, read and download your ebooks.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2024-01-14 · latest 2026-01-12

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  1. I'm working on a self-hostable ebook library ( https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri ), and currently tinkering with searching over book content. Have you written about your approach to search somewhere, perhaps? Would be very interested…
  2. …though, and I would love to make some kind of integration happen… would you be open to a chat?? [1] https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri
  3. …to have an easy way to access your collection, and share it with a few people, this is for you. https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri I’m looking for contributors who would like to help shape Colibri into a counter-approach to big tech;…
  4. Im working on a similar project, Colibri ( https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri ), an app to manage your ebook collection. Librari is looking really slick! Also, It’s always interesting to see how others approach schema selection and…
  5. …so I would agree with your estimate. I’m going to take a very close look at your code base :) [0] https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/blob/next/packages/oau...
  6. Semantic search is planned as part of book content search, look here: https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/issues/45 LLMs might make sense to interact with your collection, so that could find its way into the app at some point. Plus, I've…
  7. …and does it only supports metadata, what about the content search for these ebooks? Have you seen https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/issues/45 ? Content search is planned, but requires access to a book's text content, obviously. My…
  8. https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/ Colibri—a self-hostable web application to manage your (and your family's) ebook library, intended as a companion to Calibre. I want it to be a friendly, simple, capable, opinionated app to review…
  9. But currently it's from openlibrary.org right? https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/blob/next/apps/app/src...
    comment by reallydoubtful · 2025-04-22 · in Libro: a command-line tool to track your books
  10. …with its database, but this is stock-Full of nice ideas. I might steal some! :) If you’re curious: https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri (I have been working on this for years on and off, but now it’s finally going somewhere. Still not…
  11. Oh my! This looks very neat, and I’ve been working on something similar to Storyteller (i think): https://github.com/project-kiosk/kiosk I don’t get around working on it right now, but maybe there’s something useful there for you.
  12. I'm actually working on something like this: https://github.com/project-kiosk/kiosk/tree/v3 I'm still deep in the trenches, though. That project is like my personal zen garden of deadline-free software development, so don't expect a…
  13. …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…