Have you tried steaming them? That’s the only way that consistently yields easy-to-peel eggs for me.

Komga does that, but I’m not sure how robust the eBook support is

I have my old GTX 980 in a server. It is currently handling object recognition and transcoding in frigate, immich and Plex. Works great for this (although not super useful for Plex as it doesn’t support HEVC).

I haven’t tried throwing any LLMs at it.