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Preferred E-Book Library Server Software? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 9 months ago by NuXCOM_90Percent to c/[email protected]

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Looking for a solution to manage and access the directory on my NAS that is full of ebooks. Optimally I want to be able to web reader them but also automagically send it to the email that sends it to my kindle. And e-book wise, the majority of mine are epub/mobi that I got from various kickstarters or humble bundles. But I also have some RPG books (so PDF with a LOT of pictures) and manga (PDF or CBR).

Did some research and checked the various reference lists. Mostly narrowed it down to

Weird-ass Calibre running in Kasm and accessed through a god awful web UI: This is actually what I used for the past year or two because there was a solution that was fairly plug and play with unraid. I... would rather never do this again
"Calibre Web" https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web. This seems to be what I actually want (an actual web interface to Calibre!) but it looks like the lead dev lost their shit with obnoxious demands from users. And while I appreciate they are still supporting it, "I am going to ignore the issues unless I feel like it" seems like a good way to get a bunch of unacknowledged CVEs...
Kavita https://www.kavitareader.com. Only found out about this today but it looks clean and efficient (plex-like). REALLY not a fan of the subscription model already being there but I also don't want any of those features.

Thoughts? There anything better I am missing because none of these look all that great?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

How many are you talking about? I haven't felt the need for anything like that so far but I don't have a ton of ebooks at the moment.

Converting epub to PDF is fairly easy (I think pandoc can do it, and calibre definitely can) but the other way is harder. Same situation with search indexing (epub easy, PDF harder).

Can you just remote mount your NAS and use calibre or whatever locally? Or just make local copies of anything you plan to read?