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Booklore is officially dead

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https://lemmy.world/u/minoche posted on Mar 16, 2026 21:24

According to the official Discord, “ACX has made the decision to close Booklore and step away.” Some contributors are working together on an unnamed replacement project.

For those not in the loop, Booklore was an app that for selfhosting book libraries. It had a nice UI. It was able to store metadata separately from the download files, so you could have an organized library without duplication. In recent weeks, there have been conflict about my butt code, licensing, and general Discord nastiness.

RIP

https://lemmy.world/post/44352779

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https://lemmy.zip/u/filcuk posted on Mar 19, 2026 07:33
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22734182

That’s fair. An unfortunate situation.

https://lemmy.zip/comment/25349906
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https://lemmy.world/u/Bakkoda posted on Mar 21, 2026 14:09
In reply to: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/24367128

Thank you for answering.

https://lemmy.world/comment/22788295

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https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/users/ben posted on Mar 17, 2026 10:11
In reply to: https://snac.eutampieri.eu/eugenio/p/1773733985.578253

@eugenio @minoche Oh no!

I *think* the drama was about the fact he was leaning quite heavily on my butt coding tools (which is part of why there was such a high release cadence).

It's unfortunate really, because it's led to a project with promise being abandoned. Hopefully the fork will do well.

I *think* this might push me to calibre-web though - there are a few things with Booklore that were niggling (and I was worried about the rate that new bugs seemed to be creeping in)

https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/users/ben/statuses/116243976421997232

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https://lemmy.ca/u/Auli posted on Mar 17, 2026 20:19
In reply to: https://mastodon.bentasker.co.uk/users/ben/statuses/116243976421997232

That is only part of it. He also wanted to release a paid for client and was making it more difficult for the Foss clients to connect. He also wanted to change the license which would be hard considering others have contributed.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/22265754

Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement

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https://lemmy.world/u/egg82 posted on Mar 8, 2026 19:01

Disclaimer: I am the developer

Long story short, after Huntarr exploded I still wanted an app that did the core of Huntarr’s job: find and fetch missing or upgradable media. I looked around for some solutions but didn’t like them for various reasons. So, I made my own.

No web UI, configured via environment variables in a similar manner to Unpackerr. It does one job and it does it (a little too) well. Even when trying a few different solutions for a few days each, Fetcharr caught a bunch of stuff they all missed almost immediately. This is likely due to the way it weights media for search.

Since you made it this far, a few notes: 1) I did still use ChatGPT on a couple of occasions. They’re documented and entirely web UI - no agents. Anything it gave me was vetted and noted in the code before publishing. 2) The current icon is temporary and LLM-generated. I’ve put out some feelers to pay an artist to create an icon. Waiting to hear back. 3) It’s written in Java because that’s the language I’m most familiar with. SSL certs in Java containers can be painful but I added some code to make it as easy as Python requests or Node 4) While it still has a skip-if-tagged-with-X feature, it doesn’t create or apply any tags. I didn’t find that portion necessary, despite other popular *arrs using it. Not sure why they do, even after developing this. 5) Caution is advised when first using it on a large media collection. It’ll very likely pick up quite a number of things initially if you weren’t on top of things beforehand. Just make sure your pipeline is set up well, or you limit the number of searches or lengthen the amount of time between searches using the environment variables.

https://lemmy.world/post/44006156

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https://lemmy.world/u/queasy posted on Mar 13, 2026 20:52
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/post/44006156

This is great, thank you!

https://lemmy.world/comment/22647745
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https://lemmy.world/u/egg82 posted on Mar 13, 2026 20:59
In reply to: https://lemmy.world/comment/22647745

glad to hear it! thanks for checking it out.

https://lemmy.world/comment/22647855
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