Searchable Ebook Library
from tootnbuns@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 09:15
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/29657908

Am using Calibre and audiobookshelf. I’d love a solution where I can search the actual contents of the books. Like being able to search for topics inside all of my books.

Would be a cool AI feature - similar to how immich works.

Does anyone have a solution for that?

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SweetMylk@lemm.ee on 15 Oct 11:14 next collapse

Keep the actual epubs and search in those? (You basically want a transcript of a read out book…which is the book itself.)

conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works on 15 Oct 11:18 collapse

He wants all of his books in one index.

sxan@midwest.social on 15 Oct 12:15 collapse

And I think they want a solution that’ll index audio books, too. An LLM that’ll listen to, transcribed, and index audio books.

SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de on 15 Oct 12:42 collapse

Audiobooks have a simple workaround if you can find a version of the book in text format to download, just index that.

sxan@midwest.social on 15 Oct 15:29 collapse

Sure. I’m just saying, I think OP is looking for something that doesn’t require either buying the book again or pirating it.

SkavarSharraddas@gehirneimer.de on 15 Oct 12:15 next collapse

Calibre can create a full text index to search through everything (well, for files that actually contain the text, and it needs a lot of space).

rutrum@lm.paradisus.day on 15 Oct 12:25 next collapse

Paperlessngx will store pdfs and index their contents for searching. It’s not necessarily meant for books but I think it would work.

unskilled5117@feddit.org on 15 Oct 12:25 collapse

I had the same idea a while back and was wondering why no one has implemented something like this yet. This seems like an actual useful application for LLMs.

I am using Zotero (Citation Management Software) to collect scientific Articles I have read. Sometimes I forget in which Article I read about something specific. A search, where you could describe what you are looking for in a sentence, which then returns the Article with the relevant part, would be a gamechanger.

seaQueue@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 16:05 next collapse

I’ve had the idea for a while to use an LLM to gather metadata about books for me as well as generate tag lists for themes, plot, writing style, etc for everything in my ebook library. You could also generate non spoiler plot summaries and produce recommendations for similar books.

teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu on 15 Oct 16:36 collapse

What you are looking for is a RAG and is one of the few legitimately useful implementations of LLMs outside the wall of hype.

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unskilled5117@feddit.org on 15 Oct 17:02 collapse

Thanks for the link! Learned something new today.