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Good web-based ebook library/reader? (lemmy.serverfail.party)

submitted 1 year ago by darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Looking to remove Google play books from my life, so looking for something I can toss a bunch of stuff into and use.

Any good recommendations, with a decent UI?

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[–] Carcel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I set up calibre-web on my home server but didn't use it for very long. I've got my books separated into fiction, nonfiction and technical libraries and calibre-web could only handle one library database. I would have had to run multiple instances to get the different libraries served. I also still had a need to use calibre on my desktop so it was necessary to reimport the database from my desktop into calibre-web to keep things in sync. If you're going to manage everything in the web interface it might work for you. It was just kind of unnecessary for my needs.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe Kavita is what you need. Thats what Ive been using.

[–] Carcel@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks clean and the screenshots look like it supports multiple libraries. Their demo site won't log in but I might spin it up this weekend and play with it. I still probably don't really have a use case for it. I'm always going to need calibre on the desktop. Ubooquity is another that I tried but still had the same lack of use. One of these days I might want to move to a web based solution but not really there right now.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Fair enough I suppose. Why would you need calibre on the desktop though?

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