Gil, The Shitposter Of Ages

you had my curiosity…

but now you have my erection attention.

would you kindly provide such sources, as to satisfy this curiosity?

I’ve not personally tested such stuff (as my setup is complete and I did the metadata all by hand before the age of LLMs), but to my understanding; the LLM is able to write opf/XML/whatever files you want for metadata, or even edit the file directly to add metadata. epubs and PDFs support author/title/etc tags iirc, so its not too hard to get the LLM to apply those after ingesting the text and searching online for matches.

I shitpost a lot in comments, making shitposts is lame and for losers. better to actually say meaningful things with a post rather than a nothingburger shitpost xD

I highly reccomend using calibre.

bonus points if you use a self hosted LLM to auto catalogue and apply metadata to the file before importing into calibre.

the recent openweight models are surprisingly good at reading files, pulling info, and doing simple monotonous tasks thousands of times without failing.

and thats where a self hosted llm comes in. feed it the files, have it apply the metadata, and bam you’ve got a library.

iirc calibre has a function like this now, its kinda cool IMO.