Hey, does anyone know of a good self-hosted website for managing and reading E-Books, mainly in PDF format?
Docker solutions are preferred, but if none are available, I’m open to creating an image for it.
I’ve already tried Kavita, which I like, but its reader is just a PDF reader. I also tried Atsumeru, but I keep encountering persistent errors with the current software. Any recommendations?
im in the calibre club also. It can trans format and even edit.
I second calibre-web. I installed it on an i3-cpu/8gb-ram thinkpad, and in the last couple of weeks give/take I’ve uploaded 180+gigs of books/articles/magazines I’ve collected over the last decade. Also if you want a simple solution for installation, then you might want to try freedombox; which is a Debian based NAS like solution that uses standard Debian packages. It has a ton of one button installs like: media-wiki, calibre-web, wordpress, syncthing, searx(pvt.search aggregator), mumble(audio-voice server), and more. Easiest way to setup calibre-web if you ask me. Also it should be pretty easy to dockerize it since it’s simply Debian. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
Calibre-web for central repo for all your ebooks. KOreader + Syncthing for clients because it can sync ebooks, progress and highlights between devices.
https://awesome-selfhosted.net/
also - the search bar
Despite the name, audiobookshelf is tops for Ebooks
I use this for ebooks and audio books. Best self hosted solution I have!
Has its own Android app as well.
Love that thing
Is it? Last time I tried it, it gave me lots of issues. It didn’t show many books’ covers, had lots of issues when resuming reading, among other things. I do use AudioBookShelf to manage my podcasts, which it does an amazing job. Guess I’ll try it’s ebook capabilities again.
I’ve had no dramas with it all, sometimes it will struggle to match the right title for the metadata, but it’s a quick manual fix if need be
Then I’ll give it another try. Thanks for your response.