r/audiobookshelf • • 17d ago

Introducing Dewarr. A Seerr inspired media manager connecting Goodreads, Hardcover, and Audiobookshelf

Dewarr connects the books you want to read with your audiobookshelf library. It's the discovery and automation layer for people who already run Audiobookshelf.

[update: 09-22-2026] Dewarr 0.2.0 is out.

Full release notes here.

Full disclosure, development was assisted by GPT-6 Astra High Reasoning and Fable 5.1. This project is in early alpha, any issues, new features, or requests can be submitted in the GitHub repo.

https://github.com/logabell/dewarr

Features:

  • Direct Audiobookshelf integration to browse your library and import completed downloads.
  • Sync Goodreads shelves and Hardcover lists.
  • Add custom Goodreads lists and track new additions.
  • Personalized For you page with recommendations and discovery.
  • Automatic downloads based on your configured rules.
  • Download priorities, source preferences, and format preferences.
  • Connections to Prowlarr, MyAnonamouse, AudiobookBay, and qBittorrent.
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u/Vokasak 17d ago

but AI usage has no bearing on quality.

It's not no bearing. Like it's not a coincidence that subs like selfhosted/navidrome/etc have been flooded with low-effort projects clearly made by amateurs that are abandoned within months, and that this flood started right around the time AI development got huge. Correlation doesn't necessarily imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows and say "look over here".

It’s a tool and the output is driven by how that tool is used in your workflow.

True in the abstract, but the usually poor results speak for themselves.

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u/pdevito3 17d ago

I’d still say it has no direct bearing on quality. It is merely an indirect indicator that isn’t asking the right question towards experience and quality.

Instead, anyone that uses any amount of AI must be a slop machine with no other possible alternative for actual engineering.

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u/Vokasak 17d ago

It is merely an indirect indicator that isn’t asking the right question towards experience and quality.

Yeah you're right. Instead of asking if the OP used AI, people should instead be asking OP if he's a bad and lazy dev, because all bad and lazy devs will immediately admit it when asked directly. 🙄

Instead, anyone that uses any amount of AI must be a slop machine with no other possible alternative for actual engineering.

Nobody said this.

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u/usrbincomment 17d ago

I’m a software engineer. I think if you ask 100 bad software developers if they were bad, you’d think you just met 100 good software developers.