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Plex for books? (feddit.uk)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've picked up an eink Android tablet, which is awesome. However I have plenty of ebooks I've purchased over the years on places such as Humble, and I was wondering whether there was a self hosted solution like Plex/Emby/Jellyfin but designed for ebooks.

I've seen Calibre but it doesn't seem to be quite the same thing, and running a sync is a bit clunky for the spouse factor.

Is there anything that would index the books, show a bookshelf and allow me to read them, with offline support?

Preferably with an Android app for reading with, and the reader handling eink rather than scrolling.

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[–] possiblylinux127 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jellyfin can do books with a plugin

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The reader itself leaves a lot to be desired though. There's literally no UI besides the arrow keys and no way to configure font rendering etc. It's cool that the functionality is there, but it needs work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm a JF developer and personally use Kavita for my books 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

On android there is a client for it, called Jellybook, but I have never used it. Maybe that has better UI than the official app.