I assumed everyone was using Calibre, but recent searches suggest that isn’t always the case
How are you hosting your ebooks?
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- lud@lemm.eeEnglish2 years
Honest question. Why host them? Finishing one book can take a while and they are incredibly small.
I just use calibre and sync with my e reader and phone occasionally.
- 2 years
For me (I use Kavita) it’s because I want to be able to just pick up whatever device is in front of me at the moment and pick up the book where I last left off even if it was on another device
- lud@lemm.eeEnglish2 years
Syncing progress seems like a very good reason for hosting. I didn’t think of that.
Thanks!
- Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish2 years
I do the same thing. I’ve tried Kavita and Audiobookshelf and ended up just keeping the books on a network share and then accessing them through Calibre. I am sideloading to a Kindle though.
- jjakc@lemthony.comEnglish2 years
You can use calibre-web to send to your Kindle email. They will appear in the Kindle as “Documents”
- sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish2 years
Because I have a really cool library and it should all be kept in a centralised place
- pezhore@lemmy.mlEnglish2 years
This is the right answer. I have dockerized Calibre and Calibre-Web for initial intake, then use Calibre-Web’s OPDS feed with my Moon+ Android app for reading on my tablet/phone.
Calibre handles type conversions, metadata sync, and file organization.
Calibre-Web works well for browser reading on my PC.
- lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
Yup. It’s got built in browser based text reader and an audio player.
FYI, readarr needs separate instances for audio and text. Wasn’t worth the hassle for me
- thechadwick@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
Academics focused, but Zotero indexing a large cloud storage drive.
Let’s things organized by subject, tag, author, title, or whatever else I want. Also keeps my notes all in one place. Huge huge proponent and it’s open source!
- thechadwick@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
The best thing is adding the metadata of a book by ISBN. That or simply search it on worldcat.org and adding by the browser extension.
Phenomenal citations manager.
- keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
I use Kavita and KavitaEmail to organize and have a frontend for my books, and the latter to email them to my kindle if it’s not on there yet. My kavita container is stopped most of the time because I already know what I’m going to read next and just need it up to sync or send new books.
Used to just have my library I exported from Amazon and ebooks com on a single folder on my NAS, kavita helped clean it up a bit.
I also tried audiobookshelf but mostly for audiobooks and podcasts and didnt quite fit my workflow I already had and liked using kavita and Antennapod.
- 2 years
I am using Calibre-Web mostly - but I have run into issues with thumbnail generation after my collection hit around 500000 books. I am just over 600000 now, but a large swathe don’t have thumbnails unless I do a manual metadata search. I should probably look for an alternative, but at this point I CBF.
- bitwolf@lemmy.oneEnglish2 years
I tried Kavita but it didn’t have the features I needed. I ended up just throwing them on Nextcloud and using Nextcloud sync onto my reader (Box Air 3c)
- jozza@lemmy.worldEnglish2 years
I’m just here to lurk and see what others say, as I’ve used Calibre in the past and it didn’t really do the job I was hoping it would.
- Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish2 years
Same. My organization scheme heavily relies on calibres custom columns and export schemas though so it would be hard for me to switch anyway.
The only 2 things I dislike about calibre are the lack of a server based version and the inability to assign a book to multiple series
- sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish2 years
Yeah, I just want something that looks good, can link works by authors and shared universes and can sync reading progress across devices.
- sabreW4K3@lemmy.tfEnglish2 years
Why lol? The library interface is great and it can manage multiple users. I haven’t used it for book hosting, but I am trying to keep an eye out
- rockhandle@lemm.eeEnglish2 years
I know, it’s just the fact that I use it for pretty much all of my media that I find kinda funny. Goes to show, it’s really an amazing program tho.