Favourite Software for hosting E-Books

ilikeorangutans, 8 months ago

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: sr.ht/~ilikeorangutans/books/

Someology, 8 months ago

I run BicBucStrim on my NAS, and I access it through the web browser of any PC or tablet, my Kobo eReader, or Mobiscribe eReader. You can download a book to the device to read it, though. It basically just generates a nice web layout to access your Calibre library.

redxef, 8 months ago

Syncthing on my Kobo and all other devices where I want access to my books.

chandz05, 8 months ago

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

zaphod, 8 months ago

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:

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.

SiblingNoah, 8 months ago

Calibre-Web for serving, Calibre in a container to automatically ingest from designated folder, and Apple Books or GoodReader to read.

huskypenguin, 8 months ago

Audiobook server does work with ebooks.

TadeuszBonawentura, 8 months ago

Calibre, Kavita or Ubooquity

jacksilver, 8 months ago

I don’t like Ubooquity, but Calibre somehow seems worse.

relaymoth, 8 months ago

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.

outcide, 8 months ago

Did you have to do anything special to get the Kobo sync working? I followed the instructions and nothing worked for me …

relaymoth, 8 months ago

I just followed the instructions here and it worked right away.

outcide, 8 months ago

I shall try again, thanks!

outcide, 8 months ago

Just set it up and working perfectly, thanks!

leraje, 8 months ago

Calibre on local machine, sharing a database with self-hosted calibre-web, OPDS enabled using a Kobo to read.

Appoxo, 8 months ago

Calibre.

TheInsane42, 8 months ago

I’m using calibre as server and moon+ reader (pro) as reader. I can download the ebooks from my calibre server and with the pro version of moin+ reader I can sync reading positions (and books) between devices. This way I can continue reading on the phone where I was on the tablet while traveling.

linearchaos, 8 months ago

Same, I’ve been doing this for years. It’s just flawless.

nhowell77, 8 months ago

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.

entropicdrift, 8 months ago

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

ikidd, 8 months ago

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.

Kaavi, 8 months ago

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.