@brucelawson Vivaldi is, in fact, my browser of choice!

One more followup to my Calibre posts from earlier:

A few of you have taken it upon yourselves to lecture me about how the features Calibre is adding are entirely optional and that if I "put aside my anger issues", then there are zero problems with them.

The next person who does this is going […]

Additional followup to my earlier commentary on the Calibre thing:

Multiple people have now brought to my attention that there's already an AI-free fork of Calibre, called "clbre".

I direct interested parties over there: https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

Thanks, everyone who let me know […]

@glitch25 You're welcome.

@geniodiabolico One can certainly avoid configuring it, sure. But that isn't good enough for me if my baseline is "I do not want any AI/LLM-related features in the programs I use on a daily basis AT ALL".

Anybody else besides me can do as they like. I exercise the option to stay with the last […]

@geniodiabolico From what I've seen in comments coming across my feed since last night, he has apparently been asked about this on the Mobileread forums, which I do not follow.

"Oh, but they're unobtrusive, you don't have to use the features if you don't want them" isn't good enough. My baseline is "I don't want that crap in programs I use AT ALL". Period. Full stop.

So I will for the foreseeable future remain on Calibre 8.10, the last known version to have no AI […]

This is getting a bit more traction than my posts usually do, so hi, people reading me, a bit more context for my being pissed off about Calibre putting AI into its feature set:

I am an author. I've released work with Carina Press, and I've released work on my own. My released work is on record […]

@Firesphere You're welcome.

@Firesphere I dug a little further into the release notes and something AI-related came in with 8.11, too. It's in dictionary functionality if you want to try to define a word while you have an ebook up from your library.