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Hey I'm guessing by Calibre CLI you mean to do something like manage your book collection, but if all you want to do is convert books, Calibre does come with a

• opengears 3y ago
  Calibre comes with a lot of CLI - see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/cli-index.html https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/cli-index.html
  • ninjin 3y ago
    Indeed it does. I know that I am not entitled to dictate Calibre's direction, but it would be nice if these tools were cleanly broken out with minimal dependencies. If I recall correctly, the Calibre developers are not interested in this and have stated it explicitly and the only real alternative I have heard of is ebook-converter [1] which simply lifted the relevant portions of code out of Calibre. [1]: https://github.com/gryf/ebook-converter https://github.com/gryf/ebook-converter
    • janice1999 3y ago
      >the Calibre developers are not interested I know it was not a criticism but I would like to point out that Calibre seems to be developed also entirely by one person [0]. I understand why they would be hesitant to make big changes that would generate more work for them that would not be seen by most (GUI) users. [0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/graphs/contributors https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibre/graphs/contributors