It would be nice to have an interface to calibre search of your ebook metadata. This can be done by wrapping calibredb.

Example use case. Run M-x calibre-search , prompt appears type title:space tags:scifi search is populated with the titles and metadata of matching books and you type to narrow hit enter book opens.

Also open-last-book and open-recent-books. I could probably add this to my existing wrapper.

vcxy

My solution to this has been to export the library as a bibtex file, which is a built in feature of Calibre, and then use ivy-bibtex (could just as easily use helm-bibtex) to search the library. You need to make sure the file path is part of your bibtex export, but this is easily done. Also make sure you export tags.

michaelmrose

Sounds kind of manual compared to what I do now which is wrap calibredb in a script and narrow if needed via rofi.

https://github.com/davatorium/rofi

Presumably would be about as easy to do in elisp.

A call to calibredb in a library of thousands of books on ssd is only 1/3 -> 1/2 a second