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I would like to start managing ebooks and manga properly. I don't have many, but I plan on increasing my collection. My requirements are not so strict, I don't mind getting the books/manga myself, but I am also curious about setting up LazyLibrarian at one point, is it worth it? (I already have other *arrs installed on my server). I had similar thoughts about Suwayomi.

My confusion starts from the accessories around all this: Calibre, CalibreWeb/Automated, Komga, Kavita, Audiobookshelf, etc. Does having a Kindle as reading device limits my possibilities to use any of these? Is setting up e.g. both CalibreWeb and Kavita redundant?

I guess my question is how is everyone using these services for their own library :)

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

None of the books I've bought from kobo.com have DRM.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Just to be clear, I'm pretty sure that they don't have a no-DRM-across-the-board policy, though, so if you're going there for DRM-free ebooks, you probably want to pay attention to what you're buying.

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Yeah, they have a specific category for DRM-free ebooks:

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/drm-free

I'll also add that independent of their store, I rather like their hardware e-readers, have used them in the past, and if I wasn't trying to put a cap on how many electronic devices I haul around and wanted a dedicated e-reader, the Kobo devices would probably be pretty high on my list. When I used them, I just loaded my own content onto them with Calibre, not stuff from the Kobo store.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I guess I've just been lucky then! I've stripped DRM off everything else, so I expect theirs would come off using the same tools.