Looking for recommendations for good places to source ebooks in open-source friendly formats.
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Looking for recommendations for good places to source ebooks in open-source friendly formats.
I am plenty competent enough with the OSS ecosystem to reformat anything, but I want to reward good vendors.
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Project Gutenberg News - Jan. 2026
—Enjoy these eBooks. Share them. Celebrate them.—
New Executive Director announced; 2025 milestones reached; Public Domain Day 2026 celebrated with more eBooks released; legal updates on eBook lending; The Digital Renaissance of the Public Domain; December's top 10 downloads shared.
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So, if you don't want Calibre to have an LLM, I believe your point of no return is version 8.11. 
Luckily, since Debian Stable is reasonable, the repository still has 8.5.
The thing I would recommend is if you use Calibre regularly and do not want any "ai" garbage, mark your version now in APT and hope that the @grimthorpe 's Clbre fork project continues to advance (I have hope) so that it will make a newer version of Calibre without LLM's easy to install.
For the time being, my Debian (and Debian based distro) friends, you can mark the current version to be safe.
Just run:
sudo apt-mark hold calibre
And to check that it worked, run:
apt-mark showhold
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