djyde/dalibre
A lightweight Calibre alternative
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A calm, fast desktop library for e-books that reads and writes calibre libraries. Written in Go with MyGo's native UI: no webview, no cgo, one binary. Design: Figma — Dalibre Point the app at a library with DALIBRELIBRARY (PowerShell: $env:DALIBRELIBRARY="C:\path\to\Library"); otherwise it opens the last one used, then the one calibre itself uses. View tests can save screenshots: DALIBRESHOTS= go test ./internal/app. Build a release (exe + installer in cmd/dalibre/build): Dalibre updates itself from this repository's GitHub releases. Releases are signed with the update key of go tool mygo keygen, which is the MYGOUPDATERPRIVATEKEY secret of the repository; keep a copy in a password manager, as installed apps only accept updates it signs. section to CHANGELOG.md: the update window shows it. platform into a draft release. Publish the draft, and installed apps update to it. The workflow signs the macOS app with the Developer ID and notarizes it, from the…
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What this repository does
A lightweight Calibre alternative
Repository facts
- Owner
- djyde
- Primary language
- Go
- Stars
- 348
- Forks
- 17
- Open issues + pull requests
- 10
- License
- Not reported — inspect the license file
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-11-08T09:56:44.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-14T10:24:19.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: calibre, ebook
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