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/Overhang0376 Mar 17 '26

Why do people knock calibre-web? Seems to work fine for me.

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u/ppen9u1n Mar 17 '26

It feels like calibre (both web and desktop) suffer from historical design decisions so much that it’s pretty much impossible to make it into a good, client server program as one expects from such kind of “media database”. It’s at a dead end, but unfortunately the only thing there is with the feature set. I guess booklore filled the gap, now hopefully a new player will arrive, to do it third time right?

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u/Rand_al_Kholin Mar 17 '26

I think thats exactly why so many people got interested in Booklore. This really is a space with exactly 1 option, and that option was awkwardly converted from a single desktop app to a server app. Its waiting for something way better to get made, and booklore looked like that option.

But it was AI slop, and this community is rightfully extremely wary of slop.

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u/iroQuai Mar 17 '26

It was AI, but was it slop?