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24 alternatives to NotebookLM Calibre Plugin

I am not sure if this is useful for anyone else but I recently found myself converting a lot of books / magazines and content to NotebookLM Deep Dives, so, I wrote this quick plugin to do that in single click. I find this is a nice way to go through a lot of content (during commute etc.) and pick interesting stuff to read. Think of it as skimming a book and deciding to read it.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

  1. 1IS

    Hi everyone, For the past couple months I've been working on a website with two main features: - https://book.sv - put in a list of books and get recommendations on what to read next from a model trained on over a billion reviews - https://book.sv/intersect - put in a list of books and find the users on Goodreads who have read them all (if you don't want to be included in these results, you can opt-out here: https://book.sv/remove-my-data) Technical info available here: https://book.sv/how-it-works Note 1: If you only provide one or two…

    Nov 2025 · book.sv · its alternatives →

  2. 2

    Your ultimate NotebookLM's Chrome Extension

    May 2026 · its alternatives →

  3. 3

    Describe your topic, get curated web sources

    2025 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…

    2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →

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    Al conversations on demand on any topic

    2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Add folders, search, and sync to Google NotebookLM

    Mar 2026 · bookshelf-notebooklm.com · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Chrome extension for NotebookLM productivity utilities

    Dec 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    I really like using NoteBook LM, especially when I have a bunch of research papers I'm trying to extract insights from. For example, if I'm implementing a new feature (like re-ranking) into Morphik, I like to create a notebook with some papers about it, and then compare those models with each other on different benchmarks. I thought it would be cool to create a free, completely open-source version of it, so that I could use some private docs (like my journal!) and see if a NoteBook LM like system can help with that. I've found it to be insanely helpful, so I added a version of it onto the…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    NotebookLM batch workflows: web clip

    Feb 2026 · notekitlm.com · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    A notebook with pages that can be removed & reordered

    2014 · sorta.la · its alternatives →

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    Import links, YouTube & tabs to NotebookLM

    May 2026 · nlmtools.com · its alternatives →

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    I built Read Fast after realising I was saving hundreds of things to read and reading almost none of them. It automatically turns saved content into a scheduled briefing and sends it to my inbox at whatever time I choose. New version since last post actually allows you to bulk upload URLs. So you can just dump links here and Read Fast will scrape and brief for you. Great for actually reading the things I want to. Curious if that resonates with people?

    Dec 2025 · read-fast.replit.app · its alternatives →

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    Your read-for-me agent for X bookmarks, emails & articles

    Apr 2026 · readingnotes.ai · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Books deserve better. Listen & Experience like never before

    2025 · lvlpedia.space · its alternatives →

  15. 15

    Notebooklm, latex, pdf, markdown

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    I built this tool simply because I need it for myself. I'm not a native English speaker, and every time I write something, I like to double-check if the grammar is good Key features: - Fix grammar and clarity with one click - Rephrase, shorten, or expand text instantly - Generate content from scratch - Translate to multiple languages - Works on any website (no copy-pasting needed) It's built with Next.js and Plasmo. I wanted something lightweight that stays out of the way until you need it. I'd love to hear your feedback!

    Jan 2026 · text-pilot.com · its alternatives →

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    Write what you want. Track when it happens. It works.

    Feb 2026 · itworks.now · its alternatives →

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    Recently, I found myself having to read the book "C++ primer" and I just couldn't do it. Maybe my attention span is too little now with Claude and Codex, maybe I'm lazy... but I just couldn't get myself to focus. While reading, I needed something to do. I wanted to talk to the text, I wanted to leave notes, I wanted to use to use my keyboard to quickly flip through pages. The only good available option on a Mac was "Preview" and it was ok, but definitely not there. So I built Quincy primarily for myself. With it you can - "Talk" to the page you're reading, create a quiz about the page, and…

    Jun 2026 · tryquincy.live · its alternatives →

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    Enhance your reading and journaling habits with a 1$ hack

    2024 · philwornath.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20FA

    Made this app because I was tired of not knowing 50 words/book when I read in English. You can try it on the AppStore searching "Quicky app". For Android user please use the web mobile version at https://quicky.app/. The Desktop version has a shitty responsive design. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are not French, you will want to tell you are to try the features of the app (sorry it's only in French though) I'd love to hear your feedback.

    2019 · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Back in college, I really enjoyed reading The Manga Guide to Calculus and other books in that series. Inspired by that, I recently added a feature to my app AISheets.study that lets you turn any material into a manga-styled study guide using AI. It also supports other styles like xkcd and traditional colored comic styles. The link I shared is an example I generated from Paul Graham’s essay on fundraising (https://paulgraham.com/fr.html) Still ironing out a few quirks, but I thought it’d be fun to share this with the community!!

    2025 · aisheets.study · its alternatives →

  22. 22BT

    Hi guys. I’m looking for some feedback from the great HN community. I just soft launched the beta version of my humble bookshelf application, bookqueue. I've been working on it as a pet project since 2007. The idea is having a place to track all books you have been reading and having some nice stats around it, with less focus in the social aspects. My own queue can be found here: http://bookqueue.net/caffo You can also create your own at http://bookqueue.net/ Thanks!

    2011 · bookqueue.net · its alternatives →

  23. 23LY

    Almost one year ago I asked HN if anybody is interested to make a Web app to make reading and finding scientific papers smarter [http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1664648]. No one did, at least no one did what "I" think is the best way to approach this problem. A a few month ago I decided to do it myself.<p>Meet JournalClub iPad app (absolutely free), http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/journalclub/id443819334? I have a recommendation engine in the pipeline that I would introduce in the next update (hopefully in a month or so). I really appreciate any comments, feedbacks.

    2011 · its alternatives →

  24. 245A

    Hey everyone! I wanted to share a project that I've been working on the last few days that I finally finished last night: https://50books.org This is a simple site designed to track your reading list into 2015. My personal goal is to read 50 books this year, and I wanted to hold myself accountable. Major sites like Goodreads are great, but were too much of a social network for my personal taste; on the other hand, using a text file (which was my 2014 solution) was too difficult to track and share. I built https://50books.org using Sinatra, sqlite3 (via datamapper), and…

    2015 · its alternatives →

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