How does this compare to Calibre? I very much appreciate Calibre's extensibility of metadata and make use of it in my own digital library collection, and despite being (seen as) a desktop app, has a nice and well-working server mode which allows me to access my collection from any device I want.
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
#62I'm still looking for the library solution that doesn't mess with whatever file/folder arrangement I choose. I find it very odd that this seems to be such a difficult deal to do in the ebook space, considering the vast array of picture/video and music managers that seem to have no problem with this.
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#63I'm still looking for the library solution that doesn't mess with whatever file/folder arrangement I choose. I find it very odd that this seems to be such a difficult deal to do in the ebook space, considering the vast array of picture/video and music managers that seem to have no problem with this.
Ubooquity does offer this.
Edit: Setup Kavita using Docker, and the directory structure isn't maintained.
I'm very tempted to write a Caddy plugin for OPDS to solve for this.
Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats
#64Dunno. My hack for reading Manga is to pack them up into a PDF and download them to a tablet where I can read them unconnected.
Most manga/book servers support a protocol called OPDS that saves you from jockeying files around by hand, and there are good cbr/cbz readers for every tablet out there which integrate nicely with OPDS.
It ain't hard to get a bunch of image files for a manga and then pack them into a PDF with a Python script. I am going to use the PDF reader on the tablet anyway to read other documents, why install another (probably) badly written app.
(e.g. there is a word that starts with "cr" and ends with "ap" and it's no accident. I had to try about 6 different QR code reader apps to find one that didn't crash on launch on my Samsung tablet.)
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#65This looks awesome. Reading behaves a little weird on Firefox - the page seems to shift to the left briefly before showing the next page.
I've been a big fan of the Plex approach for curation.
Would be awesome to integrate some one-click addition from high-quality ebook sources like Standard Ebooks (does it support upstream OPDS sources?).
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#66how is this different from calibre?
a quick check seems like this is a docker(running ubuntu inside, code is in CSharp) with a web interface, while calibre is a binary to install directly.
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#67how is this different from calibre? a quick check seems like this is a docker(running ubuntu inside, code is in CSharp) with a web interface, while calibre is a binary to install directly.
Because it is web based, it is meant for sharing your library with users on other computers, or accessing your library remotely, while calibre is not geared for that purpose.
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#68I'm still looking for the library solution that doesn't mess with whatever file/folder arrangement I choose. I find it very odd that this seems to be such a difficult deal to do in the ebook space, considering the vast array of picture/video and music managers that seem to have no problem with this.
Ubooquity does offer this. Edit: Setup Kavita using Docker, and the directory structure isn't maintained. I'm very tempted to write a Caddy plugin for OPDS to solve for this.
Did a little more looking around. It also appears "Komga" might do this as well? Will be trying both.
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#69Nice. I have been waiting for something like this. I will be monitoring closely, and once it has highlight and notes feature, I will move my books from iCloud.
Re: Kavita – Self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats
#70I'm still looking for the library solution that doesn't mess with whatever file/folder arrangement I choose. I find it very odd that this seems to be such a difficult deal to do in the ebook space, considering the vast array of picture/video and music managers that seem to have no problem with this.
I think Ubooquity is probably your best bet. But it's no longer maintained and has some issues with larger libraries due to how the library scan is implemented.