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The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2017-04-10 · latest 2025-12-08

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  1. +1 to a Kobo, they cheaper and better than Kindles, with full Calibre support ( https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre - OSS which has been in development for ~20 years!). The way you install additional software is literally just moving…
    comment by tfsh · 2025-12-08 · in Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
  2. …tell Goyal started adding AI-related code to Calibre back in August, merging the LLM tab work from https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/2838 , and created the chat widget in November with commit 41d0da4267dc6f7f7e48fb9bb7e8609a2e251cb…
    comment by cratermoon · 2025-12-07 · in A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out
  3. …based narrative in the future. List of all python3 PRs merged by the developer in minutes to hours: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pulls?q=is%3Apr+py3
    comment by aumerle · 2024-09-11 · in The Modern CLI Renaissance
  4. …big changes that would generate more work for them that would not be seen by most (GUI) users. [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/graphs/contributors
    comment by janice1999 · 2024-01-14 · in Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app
  5. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre I just noticed that Calibre is referred to as an eBook manager, which is more in line with what I was talking about in some sense. All of that should fall under `eBook Manager`
    comment by Obscurity4340 · 2023-11-20 · in Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
  6. Right sidebar on GH has multiple ways to donate to this project: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
    comment by beej71 · 2023-11-18 · in Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
  7. …real chance Amazon is just running epub files through it and sending the results to the Kindle: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/v5.41.0/LICENSE
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-05-03 · in Amazon's Kindle will finally add ePub support
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    story by stanislavb · 2022-02-02 · 55 comments
  9. It's a bit of effort, but you can use Calibre (+ dedrm plugin) to backup your kindle content. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
    comment by ddeck · 2021-03-12 · in My bank sent me 64 copies of the same debit card
  10. …to Python 3 by itself but through the effort of a distro maintainer and other contributors: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author... .
    comment by GrayShade · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0
  11. …free public service here. Let's not be dicks. If you want to learn about the codebase, here it is https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
    comment by 6gvONxR4sf7o · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0
  12. …initiative to port it to Python 3. For reference, here's the ongoing python 3 port pull request: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870
    comment by kemayo · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0
  13. Yes. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.pyt... https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870 > Yeah there are not a lot of low hanging fruit left. Now one just has to get betas out and have people test them and…
    comment by duckerude · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0
  14. That's not true. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.pyt... https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870
    comment by shscs911 · 2019-09-09 · in Sunsetting Python 2
  15. …Python 3[0], and a pull request that tracked the progress and has been merged into master[1]. [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.pyt... [1] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/pull/870
    comment by eindiran · 2019-05-08 · in Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?
  16. …inconvenient. With that said, it looks like there are efforts underway to port Calibre to python3: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/blob/master/README.pyt...
    comment by eindiran · 2019-05-08 · in Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?
  17. …- Is made for managing books etc. - It's open source and has a big community as well as plugins ( https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre ) Don't get me wrong here, Notion looks like a great product and in my opinion it could be the next big…
    comment by VvR-Ox · 2019-05-08 · in Ask HN: Personal Library Manager?
  18. For what it's worth, there isn't a single line of Java in the source code. https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
    comment by m_sahaf · 2017-06-16 · in The Calibre Content Server
  19. Related: calibre https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre
    comment by jaddood · 2017-04-10 · in OcherBook: Open-source replacement Kobo firmware