rereading In the New Year
It's 2026 already, and not even the first day of the new year. For the rereading Project, that means a chance to share some of the exciting things we're looking forward to in 2026!
Committee Nominations
Governance continues to be the highest priority for the rereading Project. To kick that off, we'll shortly open a Community Forum post where you can nominate yourself or others to be inaugural members of the Steering, Partnerships, and Ethics Committees. We hope to shortly have all three Committees up and running, and to fully shift decision making into formal governance.
Expanding Arcalibre
We'll have more to say soon, but in parallel with starting up formal governance, we're also expanding our goals for Arcalibre, our AI-free fork of Calibre. Arcalibre was started with the idea of producing an “archival” version of Calibre with all AI antifeatures removed, serving as a basis for other forks in the future.
Since then, there's been a lot of excitement for continued development of an AI-free e-book manager, as well as new opportunities to streamline the Calibre build process. Meeting that excitement and taking advantage of those opportunities means treating Arcalibre as a living body of software, and expanding beyond an archival fork.
Pre-alpha Arcalibre Builds
Recently, two contributors were able to each build and run Arcalibre tests on their own machines (thank you @cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev and @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io!). That's a long way from having downloadable releases that can be easily tested, but we're excited to get Arcalibre into a pre-alpha state early in 2026, so that there's plenty of time to kick the tires and see where we still need to improve.
More Posting
Governance requires transparency, and that means a chance to write more about what's going on at the rereading Project. Writing is good and fun, anyway, so let's do more of that in 2026!
There's a lot wrong in the world, but there's also books, people who love reading books, people who love writing books, and the whole community of people sharing that love. That's the love and excitement that we're looking to bring into 2026 with the rereading Project. Thanks for being with us on that journey!