Hello, Everyone!

I am Md Waqib Sk (waqib2992 on IRC), an undergraduate student at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This summer, I had the opportunity to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026 with MetaBrainz, where I worked on developing a calibre plugin for BookBrainz.

I was mentored by Nicolas Pelletier (monkey on IRC). This post summarizes my project, its outcomes, and my experience over the course of the program.

Project Overview

Calibre is a free, open-source e-book manager used to organize and read digital books. My project was about introducing a new plugin that connected calibre with BookBrainz.

The main proposed features of the plugin were:

1. Metadata update: Search selected book from calibre  in BookBrainz database and update it’s metadata accordingly. 

2. Browse BookBrainz: Search editions/public collections by name/bbid  through the plugin and add or download the corresponding metadata.

Plugin Repository: https://github.com/bookbrainz/CaliBBre

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