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Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server (itsfoss.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.

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[–] yyprum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've been using calibre since around 2009 and it is an incredible piece of software. For handling ebooks, specially for eBook readers and file formats, it has no equal. Unfortunately it is built around the idea of installing it into one computer and connecting your eBook to it. Which makes it a bit clunky in my opinion nowadays.

Maybe calibre web fixes that, I need to check it one day. For actual books I think it falls between that and booklore.

All the other options seem to be more indicated to comics and manga, which is another aspect I've been noticing calibre does not do such a great job. I think I'll have to keep two different ones, one for reading from a tablet comics and such and another for ebooks to send to the reader.

[–] d13@programming.dev 1 point 2 weeks ago

There's a docker that essentially sets up a web VNC for Calibre. I do this for file conversion, DRM removal (only books I buy), etc.

Then I use Calibre-web for the OPDS server and nice web UI.

[–] mysweat@ani.social -1 points 1 week ago

... comics and manga, which is another aspect I've been noticing calibre does not do such a great job

Absolutely. Calibre is horrible with anything that is fixed format. I recently backed up my entire Kindle library with about 1k manga volumes, expecting to be able to convert from KFX to EPUB format as I have been doing for my regular books for 15+ years. Calibre failed awfully at this. The only thing it's reasonably good at with comics, is converting to ZIP format. So I had to write a Python script to take the KFX -> ZIP outputs from Calibre and convert them into working EPUB files.

[–] BingBong@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 weeks ago

I enjoy booklore, was easy to setup. I don't think its very matureyet though. Just updated last night and an annoying bug where sometimes books wouldn't show up after import has been fixed, so the upside is active development!

Honestly most of these look to be almost the same so I'm not sure what the key defining features would be.

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

The one I've enjoyed the most is https://www.audiobookshelf.org/, it may be "focused" on audio books, but works really well for everything. It also supports offline mode (meaning downloading local copies in the app).

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I do the same. It is not perfect for it but it works and it is already running. I'm not sure I would recommend it for anyone not looking for audiobooks

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago

I tried Calibre web and Kogma.

Calibre is just bad software at this point, it's clunky and not really designed as a server.

Kogma was fine, but a web only interface made it hit or miss. The big selling point for me with audio bookshelf was the ability to download local copies.