Software for manga/book reader
from Novalide@feddit.it to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 07:55
https://feddit.it/post/10925659
from Novalide@feddit.it to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 07:55
https://feddit.it/post/10925659
Hi, I’m searching something for manga/books.
I’m currently use jellyfin, but I don’t really like it (to import metadata it’s very complex and mechanic thing), there are some good alternatives?
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Kavita works well for me.
Removed Kavita since they started Kavita+ and the floating donate button, which can only be removed if you pay. Never again
I use Komga instead
Kavita+ is for features that have an ongoing cost for the devs. They have to spend their own money for running the servers hosting the backend of the k+ features, as well as for access to APIs. They are not features that could have possibly been free.
Also, I’m not sure why an unobtrusive donate button is a downside to you…
Don’t like plus features or paid features at all. I donate frequently to a few open source projects, but I decide if I pay and when I pay and how much I pay.
The donate button is floating, that is annoying and even if you donated, it won’t go away. You need to buy a subscription. Sorry but no, there are better softwares out there
Immich got a shitstorm because of the license button in a corner without any paid features. Now it is now called support (which is better imo)
Alright, then while you contribute to open source projects dying out I guess I will continue being reasonable about it. Immich had a shitstorm around it because they used rather deceptive wording at first, Kavita is pretty damn clear about what its methods of monetary support are.
Also, there is nothing stopping you from hiding the button via uploading a custom theme which hides the button.
No CSS skills are stopping me from hiding the button. Maybe a checkbox to turn it off would be the better option, or move it completely to the about page
Even in Immich you can turn it off without paying. Subscriptions are like cancer imo, 5€ here, 10€ there… No thanks, other projects still exists since years, like Codex or Komga
And those projects will either never have Kavita+ features, or will die out because they do not get enough one time donations from people to keep up those features. The Kavita devs are litterally providing everything for free, other than things that cost them money monthly to run. You being but-hurt about that is nonsensical.
Have you checked out Calibre? It seems to be what that does.
Komga is what I use, really like it to read my mangas ☺️
For metadata editing you can use Comictagger
It writes the metadata to the files and has online database support
You can also use komf alongside komga/kavita to just scrape metadata automatically upon import. A bit finnicky to get going (a tampermonkey script is required to give it accessible setting on the komga page) but works very well and even has a gui for identifying results and selecting the correct option if the auto scrape fails similar to jellyfin
For the actual reader part I just use komga as a server and read through Mihon (one of the tachiyomi forks) on my ereader mostly. occasionally I’ll use paperback on my iphone (although recently I’ve been trying Tachimanga, which is basically an iOS tachiyomi fork). Loads library, can sort by tag/library/date added, reads most things very well, can sync read status with the komga server (and/or manga updates or whatever), etc.
Thanks for this, I have a similar setup and looking to migrate from Kavita -> Komga + iPad reader. For Paperback, does syncing read progress actually work to/from Komga? In the Komga instructions for syncing it directs me to install a custom Paperback tracker that only works for v.0.7 (and Paperback is currently v.0.8).
Which OS?
On Android, Moon+ Reader is pretty good.
My wife uses the Amazon Kindle app on her Android tablet. You can use it for non-Kindle books by sending an email to a special email address for your Kindle account: www.amazon.com/sendtokindle/email.
Calibre is useful for this. It shows an easy to use “send to Kindle” button, and can convert books in ePub, mobi, etc formats to the format that works best in the Kindle app (AZW3).
If you want a web interface for Calibre (eg to run on a home server and download books when you’re away from your computer), Calibre-web works well.
Moon Readers cloud sync is amazing if you read from multiple devices. I think they recently added book syncing too.
The problem with the send to Kindle option is email attachment size limit. For books it’s fine but manga and comics are usually too big.
My Kindle is old enough that I was able to jailbreak it and install KOReader so I can just download from my Calibre server directly via OPDS. Otherwise if it’s too big for email you’ll have to do it over USB I think.
My wife uses Chunky on her iPad and it works pretty well.
Easy enough to add a network folder as a file source.
Mihon which is a fork of tachyiomy (they took a dmca). Best app for mangas and webtoons.
There is Komikku for linux though it's kinda limited to sources it supports. Komga is a nice self hosted option with support for Mihon and all the tachiyomi forks for android. There is a tachiyomi fork called Komikku (different from the linux app) that I like.