Calibre

Calibre library integration — book management, chapter extraction, and AI summaries

March 20, 2026

Overview

Calibre serves as Akita’s book library backend. Books stored in Calibre can have their chapters extracted, indexed into the vector corpus, and summarized by AI.

Capabilities

Book Management

Browse and search books by title, author, tag, or series
View detailed metadata for any book
List all tags with book counts

Chapter Extraction

Extract chapters from EPUB files into individual text files
Required before summarization or indexing
Use calibre__extract_chapters with a book ID

AI Summaries

Generate chapter-by-chapter AI summaries
Summarize all, unsummarized only, or specific chapter ranges
Summaries are stored alongside chapters and indexed into the corpus

Book Browser

create_book_browser_artifact generates an interactive HTML page for browsing a book’s chapters and summaries

Workflow

1. Add book to Calibre library
2. extract_chapters → splits EPUB into chapter text files
3. summarize_chapters → AI generates chapter summaries
4. Chapters + summaries indexed into Qdrant corpus
5. Searchable via corpus__search_in_book or corpus__search_book_summaries

MCP Tools

See MCP Tools Reference for the full list of calibre__* tools.