According to the official Discord, “ACX has made the decision to close Booklore and step away.” Some contributors are working together on an unnamed replacement project.

For those not in the loop, Booklore was an app for selfhosting book libraries. It had a nice UI. It was able to store metadata separately from the download files, so you could have an organized library without duplication. In recent weeks, there have been conflicts about AI code, licensing, and general Discord nastiness.

RIP

Edit: The discord, website and github are all gone.

  • nile_istic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Oh goddamn it, I deployed this like five days ago. Been working on digitizing my whole collection for the past week cuz I liked it so much. Fuck lol.

    Uh, anyone know any good alternatives???

  • Bakkoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    The only lesson to be learned from this is disclosure. If AI is so good/bad don’t hide the fact that you are using it. End of story. Let people make their decisions based off that.

  • versionc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Good riddance.

    Has anyone used Komga as an alternative? It’s primarily for manga and comics but it seems to support books too (epub and PDF). It also seems to be able to sync books with Kobo devices.

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      17 hours ago

      I set up Komga as soon as the original reddit thread went up about the Booklore dev. Works great, pretty simple, does what it needs to do, and setting up Kobo sync for my wife took all of 5 minutes.

    • TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      I will say, even given all the drama around the original creator in the last few weeks, Booklore has a solid front end experience, is quite flexible, and generally stable app. It’s a bummer the creator acted childishly (again and again), but I know I’ll be looking to use whatever the v2 of this becomes.

  • Brian@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    Well, that went downhill very fast. Very sad. I liked the UI too; it was a good way to manage a collection; and it synced with my Kobo pretty easily.

    I hope those who have the ability to do so will create something from its ashes.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      I liked the UI too

      It looked like a very solid UI. In fact, so much so that I’ve toyed with the idea of deploying it.