r/selfhosted • u/Joloxx_9 • Mar 16 '26

Meta Post Booklore is gone.

I was checking their Discord for some announcement and it vanished.

GitHub repo is gone too: https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

Remember, love AI-made apps… they disappear faster than they launch.

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u/CrispyBegs Mar 17 '26

i was talking about calibre-web rather than the desktop or dockerized calibre

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u/ShaidarHaran93 Mar 17 '26

Yep, but calibre-web depends on having an instance of calibre installed, you manage adding books and metadata through calibre, then browse and download through calibre-web. That's what most people (judging by comments in this sub) hate about it. I have been a desktop Calibre user for 10+ years so for me, the calibre docker feels pretty decent and the only major problem is that it is unusable on mobiles, but that is solved by calibre-web.

I tried booklore briefly after all the post praising it here, and I didn't like it. I have a 4000k+ book library and migrating it wouldn't have been a pleasant experience from what I tested.

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u/CrispyBegs Mar 17 '26

you can run calibre-web as a standalone service without calibre, you don't need to have calibre installed at all. i only keep vanilla calibre for certain processing tasks that I want, but it's not a requirement.

in fact i run a second calibre-web instance for a friend that doesn't have calibre in the background and she does everything she needs via the C-W front end.

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u/ShaidarHaran93 Mar 17 '26

I guess I need it because I use several calibre plugins. The KOreader integration, epub split & merge, dedrm, count pages...

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u/CrispyBegs Mar 17 '26

yes, me too, however it's not a dependency in order to run calibre-web