Ubooquity: Free home server for your comics and ebooks library

Post by toomuchtodo » Sun, Nov 08, 2020, 3:37 PM UTC

bane wrote: post #20

I know lots of people use Calibre, but I find it fussy and don't like how it organizes things in the library interface. I've been using Ubooquity instead and it's pretty drop-dead simple to use and I like the web-reader more, especially on tablets. 1) Start the application 2) Tell it where your stuff is 3) Wait while it indexes it (it does not replicate your content into a book index just grabs front pages for thumbn…

Post by zaptheimpaler » Mon, Nov 09, 2020, 8:37 AM UTC

petemir wrote: post #19

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #11

I put all my books into a Calibre library on Dropbox and open them in Apple Books via files or CC. Does ubooquity offer something more? I’m missing something that can markup on PDFs and highlights/notes on epubs dont sync back to the original file because iBooks has it’s own copy. But I haven’t found a clear solution to this yet - one app that supports reading both PDF and epub and will sync annotations back into the…

For PDFs, I use Documents by Readdle on iPad. Great for the markup and includes syncing (files accessible offline). Lots of options for the latter (OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, I use WebDAV), although syncing is a pain because you have to keep the app open (it seems to be an iOS limitation). For EPUBs, sadly, it doesn’t do highlight... for this I think you could use Marvin, which can read from a Calibre Server.