I use calibre to manage my library. Well, mostly just to put them into one place. But to browse/read/download books I’ve written my own service reads the calibre sqlite database and serves it as a web page. It doesn’t have opds support yet, but I’m looking into that. Check it out here: https://sr.ht/~ilikeorangutans/books/
Honestly I’ve been using Google play books for years, just upload pdf or epub and you have it on phone, ipad and computer. Plus it remembers how far you are on between devices.
Readarr for storing on own server, before I upload them.
I use Jellyfin. You have to install the Bookshelf plugin (or at least I didn’t the time I set it up, may be a default now). Saves progress, and gives me one less service to manage as I use Jellyfin for Movies, TV, and Music libraries already.
I use Calibre with FBReader on a few android devices. You set up calibre as a web server and FBreader just connects to it directly. It stores reading position on Gdrive or dropbox, unfortunately not on NC or other self-hosted storage.
Using a Kobo reader with Calibre & Calibre-web to serve the books.
Setup a shelf on web, create a sync token on web. Add token to the Kobo config, automatically syncs any books that are added to the shelf. This replaces the Kobo store api for syncing, but I don’t use it so no biggie for me.
My flow is GoodReads (tracking/requesting) -> Readarr (manage downloads) -> Calibre (manage library/metadata) -> Calibre-Web (user friendly browsing/serving) and then I can send to kindle or download or whatever from Caliber-Web. I download from Usenets/Libgen/Openbooks
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I use calibre to manage my library. Well, mostly just to put them into one place. But to browse/read/download books I’ve written my own service reads the calibre sqlite database and serves it as a web page. It doesn’t have opds support yet, but I’m looking into that. Check it out here: https://sr.ht/~ilikeorangutans/books/
Just copy to the reader?
Honestly I’ve been using Google play books for years, just upload pdf or epub and you have it on phone, ipad and computer. Plus it remembers how far you are on between devices.
Readarr for storing on own server, before I upload them.
I use Jellyfin. You have to install the Bookshelf plugin (or at least I didn’t the time I set it up, may be a default now). Saves progress, and gives me one less service to manage as I use Jellyfin for Movies, TV, and Music libraries already.
I do this too. When I want a better reader I just download the book to my device and read it with any number of apps
Kindle screens are very good , but eff Bezos
An iPad is versatile, but then Apple…
But FOR ME, I cannot read books on a computer screen, it is just too awkward.
So yes I iPad.
if you want an e-ink screen, there’s always kobo and/or boox.
Kobo is good.
Unless they have changed something recently, Boox violates the GPL.
Kobo with calibre-web sync has been great. Calibre-web github.
Ooo. Thank you.
I use Calibre with FBReader on a few android devices. You set up calibre as a web server and FBreader just connects to it directly. It stores reading position on Gdrive or dropbox, unfortunately not on NC or other self-hosted storage.
Using a Kobo reader with Calibre & Calibre-web to serve the books.
Setup a shelf on web, create a sync token on web. Add token to the Kobo config, automatically syncs any books that are added to the shelf. This replaces the Kobo store api for syncing, but I don’t use it so no biggie for me.
Did you have to do anything special to get the Kobo sync working? I followed the instructions and nothing worked for me …
I just followed the instructions here and it worked right away.
Just set it up and working perfectly, thanks!
I shall try again, thanks!
Audiobook server does work with ebooks.
Calibre, Kavita or Ubooquity
I don’t like Ubooquity, but Calibre somehow seems worse.
Calibre-Web for serving, Calibre in a container to automatically ingest from designated folder, and Apple Books or GoodReader to read.
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I manage my library on my laptop with Calibre, then replicate that to a server with Syncthing and serve it up via OPDS with COPS:
https://github.com/seblucas/cops
I like this because COPS is simple and easy to set up. It does just what I need and nothing else.
I read on a old jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite running KOReader.
My flow is GoodReads (tracking/requesting) -> Readarr (manage downloads) -> Calibre (manage library/metadata) -> Calibre-Web (user friendly browsing/serving) and then I can send to kindle or download or whatever from Caliber-Web. I download from Usenets/Libgen/Openbooks
I’m using https://www.kavitareader.com/ with Moon+ Reader. Kavita supports OPDS feeds, which is perfect.
Syncthing on my Kobo and all other devices where I want access to my books.