Better remove it.

- Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library.

- Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI"

- AI: Allow asking AI what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books" menu

- AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various AI models locally

It seems pretty harmless really.

I understand some people feel that AI is overhyped and don't particularly like it, but this level of weird knee-jerk "anything AI is the devil incarnate" response is just as ridiculous, IMO.

> Supports hundreds of AI models via Providers [...] no AI related code is even loaded until you configure an AI provider.

This fork is pretty much useless.

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new [2] https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated

I looked at forking the project myself: the challenges are that it's a very quirky application, its design and implementation doesn't share conventions with any other application, and the build system is complex and unique to Calibre.

It's a shame there's no good open source ebook library application with a more conventional design. Shoving AI into everything, even when it defaults to "off" (for now), is getting old.