I don't know if you remember, but I created an AI Plugin collection to send your eBooks to a Local LLM about a year ago. It was a game-changer for compiling summaries and completing your metadata automatically. It also allowed you to pull down custom metadata from books and upscale your low-resolution ebook covers directly in Calibre.
It was all local, and you didn't need an internet connection to use the plugin.
I'm dead against BigTech AI Companies harvesting books and stealing authors' work for their own profits, so I went out of my way to block all the main endpoints for all the cloud-based services, Google, Deepseek, Anthropic, ChatGPT ect.. I encoded the domain blocks and made it difficult to reverse engineer the plugin, so you could only use the Plugins locally on your own machine, and the author's work would be safe.
https://www.digitalassassins.co.uk/n...book-software/
I was shunned at the time by the Calibre community, banned from the Sub-Reddit for daring to introduce AI into Calibre, and blocked from uploading my AI plugin into the official Calibre Store..
Kovid Goyal at the time said AI will never make it into Calibre and argued with me, and I quote "A.I. has the IQ of a 3 day old Corpse"..
He said AI is pointless and is stupid; it doesn't deserve to be in Calibre.
9 Months later, he starts adding AI tools that communicate with BigTech AI services to send authors' work from your machine, to be stored on cloud servers for AI Companies to make money from.. Such as Google Gemini and OpenRouter.AI
It's kind of Ironic really !!