A while back Calibre—a book management program which I have been using for years—integrated AI features, in an option that showed up in the context menu, when selecting a book and clicking on View, titled Discuss selected book with AI. Clicking it opens a chat interface that connects to any “provider”—also known as slop generator—of your choice.
Of course, I see no use for such a useless feature, and if you don’t either, here’s how to hide it completely:
- Go to Preferences > Plugins > AI provider, select each one and click on Enable/disable plugin.
- Go to Preferences > Tweaks
- Scroll all the way down until you see Hide AI features (You could also use the search bar for this)
- Go to the text editor box and set the variable to
True.
- Restart Calibre.
All the references and buttons will be gone from Calibre’s interface, it’s a bit of a bummer that the plugins can’t be fully deleted, but hey, as they say, out of sight, out of mind.
Of course there are also some forks made due to this addition in the form of Arcalibre, as well as library management alternatives like Booklore.
Personally, regular Calibre works fine and I don’t really feel the need to fully switch away from it. It has been a great project for years, and since most of the alternatives are rather young and have yet to prove themselves, I am inclined to just not bother, at least for now.
This is day 41 of #100DaysToOffload
