Are any of you hosting their own E-Books? If so which Software are you using and is it compatible with the E-Reader of your choice (if you use one)?

I don’t have an E-Books nor do I have an E-Reader, but I’m considering to dig deeper into the business and wanted to hear your stories.

  • nhowell77@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

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      1 year 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

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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: https://sr.ht/~ilikeorangutans/books/

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

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    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:

    https://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.

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    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.

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