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Does anyone know of a good offline or at the very least local-first app for keeping track of read books, to read books, and search for books by ism, author, etc

Does anyone know of a good offline or at the very least local-first app for keeping track of read books, to read books, and search for books by ism, author, etc. I don't care about any social features. I'm asking for essentially a glorified crud app with a nice UI and isbn lookup and goodreads scraping.

goosedragons 2y ago
Calibre. Mainly for eBooks but you could add an empty book for those that are paper. It'll do metadata lookup and what not too given a title etc.
- _aavaa_ 2y ago
  Hmm. Hadn’t considered it for that. I’ve only used it for conversions, never kept things there since their ebook reader is quite bad.
  - Vecr 2y ago
    It's quite bad? It's the only one I've ever used.
    - _aavaa_ 2y ago
      On Mac at least is it quite laggy and janky overall, especially when compared to Apple’s Book app.
      - Larrikin 2y ago
        Apple doesn't let you copy and paste from books. I've moved to thorium on the computer and Moon+ on my phone