Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.
I have tried every possible set up, I’ve got to say that the best one so far for me is sychthing + Koreader: dead simple, no databases, synchs annotations and highlights as well, books are simply epub files + metadata.
Aka no dealing with exports, database corruption or stuff like that.
Aren’t ebooks like… Miniscule, file-size wise? Like smaller than mp3s?
Some can be very big if they include pictures. (like cookbooks)
However, yes… if it’s just say a fiction book with no pictures, they are kilobytes in size.
My biggest complaint about calibre-web is that you can’t search for text inside the books you’ve got. It has to be a surprise! LOL.
Kavita has been good. I wanted to use it more for organising, fetching metadata and reading comic books from the server. Works well with Android and the Kahon app (+Kavita extension) on my Android tablet.
The one I’ve enjoyed the most is https://www.audiobookshelf.org/, it may be “focused” on audio books, but works really well for everything. It also supports offline mode (meaning downloading local copies in the app).
Wait you use it also for epub/pdf? How does that work, can you connect a client and grab it from there? Can you have both an audiobook and text version of the same book?
