Self hosted book service
from bilbaobun@lemmy.ml to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 20:25
https://lemmy.ml/post/45192126

Looks for something like calibre web but not terrible

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irmadlad@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 20:48 next collapse

Is there something specific you don’t like about Calibre Web? Might help pinpoint the recommendations.

bilbaobun@lemmy.ml on 29 Mar 20:49 collapse

Janky and doesn’t look nice

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 21:00 collapse

Well, I’m not sure what ‘janky’ encompasses for you but when you add themepark, it looks much better.

UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 02:16 collapse

The real MVP!

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 10:57 collapse

…aww shucks

shawn@thagoat.org on 29 Mar 20:51 next collapse

Check out Komga or stump

loanrangerofpeanuts@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 21:26 next collapse

Look into Grimmory, the replacement for booklore. Apparently it’s the same maintainers just a fork since the creator of booklore closed it down (no major changes yet, just housekeeping). I’m happy with it.

otter@lemmy.ca on 29 Mar 21:48 next collapse

Did you try Calibre Web or Calibre Web Automated

Maybe CWA is what you’re looking for?

github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated

Kirk@startrek.website on 30 Mar 01:26 collapse

It was the UI he didn’t like so it’s not going to be much different.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 22:09 next collapse

Calibre Web Automated is a completely different project. I am liking it so far.

Some people have also suggested Kavita.

fievel@lemmy.zip on 30 Mar 13:19 collapse

Personally, I found Kavita and Grimmory far too complex for my use and also very resources hungry. At the end CWA is just perfect for me. Still have to configure my kobo e-reader to use it directly and this will for sure be a game changer from my current solution which consist in converting epub to kepub with kepubify and then put it on a local webserver that I open through kobo web browser.

Update: Kobo sync configured and it’s just awesome, just adding book to a shelf and sync the reader as usual and hop, everything downloads and progress updated in cwa.

MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip on 29 Mar 22:25 next collapse

I have found Kavita to be excellent.

thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 22:50 collapse

Plus one for Kavita. Only slight bump is that it wants books to be in series because it’s quite manga focused.

[deleted] on 29 Mar 23:03 next collapse

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ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com on 29 Mar 23:23 next collapse

I’m running Kavita. It’s been good and tracks your reading progress. The catch is that there’s no upload, you have to put your files on the disk and then rescan

jacksilver@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 02:29 next collapse

I’ve tried the a number of the ones being mentioned, but the best for me has been Audio bookshelf . It has a good mobile app, allows collections, tries to pull Metadata, offline reading for the apps, etc.

bilbaobun@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 08:05 next collapse

Does it support epub?

jacksilver@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 12:56 collapse

Basic ebook support and ereader (epub, pdf, cbr, cbz) + send to device (i.e. Kindle)

Biggest issue is the folder/book structure is very opinionated and isn’t the easiest to work with.

WandowsVista@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 17:10 collapse

+1 for audiobookshelf. my buddies and I have been using it without issue for a year or so now

utjebe@reddthat.com on 30 Mar 15:07 collapse

BookLore github.com/mvanhorn/booklore/

Killer feature for me was ability to upload books via web.

Edit: just noticed I linked wrong git, thanks @GeekyOnion@lemmy.world

old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/…/booklore_is_gone/ wtf…

I guess I’m looking for a new service now as well

GeekyOnion@lemmy.world on 30 Mar 16:21 next collapse

I just moved off of Booklore because of the recent drama. Went back to Calibre + Calibre Web Automated.

bilbaobun@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 19:10 collapse

Did you look at grimmory

zeitverschreib@freundica.de on 30 Mar 16:32 next collapse

@utjebe

Audiobookshelf has that option as well.

@bilbaobun

bilbaobun@lemmy.ml on 30 Mar 19:10 collapse

What about grimmory