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Originally Posted by farmo
"Calibre adding "AI conversations" with books fundamentally alters the relationship that users, presumably readers!, have with the works in their libraries. ... Here, Calibre, in one release, went from a tool readers can use to, well, read, to a tool that fundamentally views books as textureless content, no more than the information contained within them.
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Um... no, it doesn't change any relationship I have with the books in my library. I read them, edit their metadata and formatting (probably the latter is also an anathema to you - how dare I mess with the author's/publisher's vision about what their books should look like!), sort them into various categories, and if needed, ask the AI to remind me of something in a book
I have already read a while ago. I don't ask the AI to summarize unread books to me. And yes, I still reread many of my books.
You're presumably thinking that people will now stop reading and only ask the AI to summarize. That's highly unlikely. Those who enjoy reading (I'm guessing the vast majority of calibre users) won't stop enjoying it just because LLMs are now integrated in calibre. And if there are any calibre users who, for some reason, don't enjoy reading, adding LLM integration won't change that either.