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Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

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Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

#41

> supports disabling Authentication Could it then be used as a public library of one's own works?

I mean, I guess so. It'd still be weird because progress would be tracked when people logged in. User accounts would still be there. (Although you could just reset it nightly or do some clever tricks with a reverse proxy to force everything to be read in incognito mode)

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#42

Does this work with any real eink readers as a "store" and sync service? I checked it out but they only mention mobile apps, not devices

This requires having a web reader (edit: or OPDS), so I'm not sure about that.

Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

#43

Looks neat. I would love for such a tool that also has full text search on the books. I tried searching for “JSON” which is indeed in one of the books in the library and it did not find that book.

Our search only currently works on the series titles. It's getting an overhaul in 2 releases time though, but Full text search within books is not going to be supported. It's a very complicated task and there are better softwares out there to support that.

Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

#44

UI with minimalism, open source and cross-platform (Win, Lin, Mac) -- what's not to like about it?! And a great name too. Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages. I'm sure others will point out the pros/cons vis-a-vis Calibre reader. But each serves a different niche. This one seems particularly geared towards comics. So cannot expect all the bells and whistles of Calibre.

> Kavita means poem or poetry in Sanskrit and pretty much all Indic languages. Interestingly, in Semitic languages Kavita means writing or written things.

In case anyone else is confused: in Sanskrit it's Ka-vi-ta (it seems), in Semitic (at least Hebrew), it's k-ti-va. So quite different.

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#45

I'd love to have something like this if I ever bought a https://onyxboox.com/boox_nova3color If it could download "to-read" books/manga onto local storage and then sync page numbers when you connect to wifi that would be amazing.

We have download support and "To Read" might be a collection or a readlist, so you could just download those series onto your device of choice if you don't want to user our web reader. If you use the web reader, of course, progress is tracked for you.

If you're talking more like how Plex does sync, I literally just tried that with a Progressive Web App last week, but it didn't pan out. There wasn't enough control with a PWA (which means I'm going to have to write something native-ish in the future).

Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

#46

I'd love to have something like this if I ever bought a https://onyxboox.com/boox_nova3color If it could download "to-read" books/manga onto local storage and then sync page numbers when you connect to wifi that would be amazing.

We have download support and "To Read" might be a collection or a readlist, so you could just download those series onto your device of choice if you don't want to user our web reader. If you use the web reader, of course, progress is tracked for you. If you're talking more like how Plex does sync, I literally just tried that with a Progressive Web App last week, but it didn't pan out. There wasn't enough control wit…

It seems like there's an API so I'm assuming it is possible to do.

Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

#47

Does this work with any real eink readers as a "store" and sync service? I checked it out but they only mention mobile apps, not devices

This requires having a web reader (edit: or OPDS), so I'm not sure about that.

Any OPDS-capable reader can access the media on the server and they also have their own API afaik, though I haven't really found any 3rd party client apps yet.

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#48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That just means someone changed it because they are bullies. Let me change it back. :)

Are you the dev? The `img/hero/example.png` image is way too big, I watched it slowly load over the course of maybe 5 seconds.

I am. I probably just need to compress it (and write some media queries too). Thanks for the note.

Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats

#50

Looks nice, I've been rolling my own simple version of something similar because none of the existing solutions supported my main use case, which is to convert format on the fly for the target device (a la Plex) In case you need ideas for future features :)

I'm curious how you achieve this? Is it similar to Calibre-web's Send to device? Or did you code the conversions yourself (or are you using an external service) and emailing the file?

Are you also providing the reading experience or sending the converted file raw to use in another program's reader?

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