calibre friday preview releases

[chaley]

These two template language changes are in the preview 8.10.100.

• The "with statement" and related functions.
• The "f_string()" function.

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Released 8.10.100 which has the "Ask AI" lookup feature in the E-book viewer.
When you select text in the viewer, you can ask the AI questions about it, by clicking the lookup button on the popup bar and choosing the Ask AI tab.

It's completely plugin based and even the code for it is not loaded unless you enable it.

Currently it supports using AI services from any of Google, GitHub, OpenRouter and Ollama (for local AI). Note that most of these require setting up an account, but you can use them for free (up to a certain number of times a day, I'd recommend using the Google one as it's the most capable and is currently free for a fair number of queries a day).

Hi Kovid,

I get this error when clicking either "First, configure AI provider" or settings:

Spoiler:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 584, in on_chat_link_clicked
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 331, in show_settings
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 780, in __init__
File "calibre\gui2\widgets2.py", line 272, in __init__
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 787, in setup_ui
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 698, in __init__
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 704, in load_settings
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 714, in load_actions_from_prefs
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 125, in current_actions
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'

This on Win10

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Released 8.10.100 which has the "Ask AI" lookup feature in the E-book viewer.
When you select text in the viewer, you can ask the AI questions about it, by clicking the lookup button on the popup bar and choosing the Ask AI tab.

It's completely plugin based and even the code for it is not loaded unless you enable it.

Currently it supports using AI services from any of Google, GitHub, OpenRouter and Ollama (for local AI). Note that most of these require setting up an account, but you can use them for free (up to a certain number of times a day, I'd recommend using the Google one as it's the most capable and is currently free for a fair number of queries a day).

When I clicked to configure AI, I received the following error.

calibre, version 8.10.100
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>AttributeError</b>:'LLMPanel' object has no attribute 'quick_actions_as_html'

calibre 8.10.100 embedded-python: True
Windows-10-10.0.26100-SP0 Windows ('64bit', 'WindowsPE')
('Windows', '10', '10.0.26100')
Python 3.11.12
Windows: ('10', '10.0.26100', 'SP0', 'Multiprocessor Free')
Interface language: None
EXE path: C:\Program Files\Calibre2\calibre-parallel.exe
Successfully initialized third party plugins: DeACSM (0, 0, 16) && Gather KFX-ZIP (from KFX Input) (2, 26, 2) && DeDRM (10, 0, 9) && Package KFX (from KFX Input) (2, 26, 2) && Annotations (1, 17, 13) && Apple Books covers (1, 1, 0) && Backup Configuration Folder (1, 1, 2) && Barnes & Noble (1, 5, 7) && BookFusion Plugin (0, 8, 1) && Count Pages (1, 13, 7) && Diaps Editing Toolbag (0, 5, 0) && EpubCheck (0, 2, 6) && EpubMerge (3, 2, 0) && EpubSplit (3, 12, 0) && Favourites Menu (1, 3, 1) && Find Duplicates (1, 10, 9) && Hyphenate This! (0, 1, 3) && KFX metadata reader (from KFX Input) (2, 26, 2) && From KFX (2, 26, 2) && KFX Input (2, 26, 2) && Set KFX metadata (from KFX Output) (2, 17, 1) && KFX Output (2, 17, 1) && Kindle hi-res covers (0, 5, 1) && KindleUnpack - The Plugin (0, 83, 8) && Kobo Metadata (1, 12, 0) && Kobo Utilities (2, 24, 3) && Modify ePub (1, 8, 6) && Quality Check (1, 14, 2) && Reading Goal (1, 9, 9) && Reading List (1, 15, 6) && ScrambleEbook (0, 6, 0) && TextDiff (1, 2, 4)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\lookup.py", line 432, in _tab_changed
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\lookup.py", line 427, in _activate_llm_panel
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 367, in update_with_text
File "calibre\gui2\viewer\llm.py", line 494, in update_ui_state
AttributeError: 'LLMPanel' object has no attribute 'quick_actions_as_html'

[kovidgoyal]

@Comfy.m: Looks like you have a bad setting in viewer-webengine.json possibly because you tried out the original PR code? In any case edit that file and remove the llm_quick_actions key (simply rename it to llm_quick_actions2 or something similar) and you should be fine.

EDIT: Actually it was a bug, https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...7c4eb210911646 you can still work around it by editing the fil and setting llm_quick_actions to {}

[Comfy.n]

Thank you, that fixed the issue I mentioned.

[thiago.eec]

Hi @Kovid.

My Queries counter keep reseting. Also, a coulpe of times the screen turn black, so I had to close the viwer and open again. Next time I'll try running in debug mode so I can get more info.

Is there are a AI to configure the AI language? I can ask it to use pt-BR but sometings it defaults back to english. Also, the reasoning is always in english.

P.S.: I'm using Google AI with a free account. I have some free credits for now.

[JSWolf]

I still cannot get the AI to work in the viewer without it causing an error.

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I still cannot get the AI to work in the viewer without it causing an error.

Go to calibre config dir (..\AppData\Roaming\calibre) and search for 'viewer-webengine.json'. Open the file and add this key:

"llm_quick_actions": {},

Restart the viewer and it should work.

[kovidgoyal]

@Thiago.eec: Queries counter is per session only not all time. As for AI language I'm afraid not different models have different language capabilities. I dont recall off the top of my head if Gemini (the google one) supports pt_BR

Reasoning is model internal and cant really be controlled as far as I know.

[thiago.eec]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Thiago.eec: Queries counter is per session only not all time.

Oh, I see. Maybe a configurable time frame would be usuful.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

As for AI language I'm afraid not different models have different language capabilities. I dont recall off the top of my head if Gemini (the google one) supports pt_BR

Reasoning is model internal and cant really be controlled as far as I know.

It does support portuguese. I asked it to always respond in portuguese. It seems to work, as long as I don't click in any of the quick actions, that uses english. This seems to override my request to use pt-BR, and brings english back for all the responses.

[Quoth]

AI doesn't "reason".

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by thiago.eec

It does support portuguese. I asked it to always respond in portuguese. It seems to work, as long as I don't click in any of the quick actions, that uses english. This seems to override my request to use pt-BR, and brings english back for all the responses.

Can you add actions and will they stick? I tried adding a custom action but:

- it doesn't "pick"

- when I try to edit the new custom action I get the same "built-in action aren't editable" message

I am using a local model for the tests, if that matters. Works awesome for all the built-in actions, with the caveat you mentioned about language .

[kovidgoyal]

There is a bug preventing removing/editing of custom actions but you can add them and they stick. The bug will of course be fixed.

[kovidgoyal]

This will fix the bugs with the custom actions: https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...608379caa274d5

I will release 8.10.101 in an hour with the fixes.

@thiago.eec: Since its impossible for calibre to know whether a model supports a given laguage I guess what can be done is a setting to add to the default prompts a line telling the model to respond in the current UI language if it can.