I’ve been on the long process of transitioning my janky - Windows + Hyper-V + Docker containers to a fully containerized Linux solution. It’s been slow but good progress. Biggest learning has been the DB surgery to fix absolute to relative paths. Trying to stage the full Linux transition so I reduce the work once I get on the new OS.

I’ve said this in a few other contexts too, but Grimmory/Booklore, while imperfect is loads easier and nicer to use than CW or CWA. You aren’t managing a calibre db + a separate web layer, and this meant I could tighten up my organization significantly since I wasn’t required to be on my host machine.

For me the primary benefits above the interface is the metadata control you have from the web UI. You can dump all those files into a single ingest folder and it will attempt to match metadata with the ability to apply all, or pick and choose as you see fit.

From what I’ve understood, the recent drama was mostly about an immature creator rather than rampant AI generated code.

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.

I did this switch a few months back when Readarr really started to fall apart on me. Booklore has been excellent for my normal ebook library, epub, and a few pdfs. The exception being larger comic files which I find it struggles with. I’ve been using it directly connected via OPDS and it’s syncing service to KOReader, and it’s been awesome.

Overall, I highly recommend Booklore at this point!

I’ve currently got progress syncing through Calibre-Web-Automated, but I’d also tried it via KoInsights which I’m using for syncing reading stats. I’m in the process of migrating to my library to BookLore which also has a sync server.

I’ve been synching progress and stats between a pair of devices! It’s been great since it runs well on my haul broken kindle & my android.

There is some(maybe a bit more than some) setup time to get used to the layers of menus, but it’s a pretty robust app.