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Recommendations on self hosting ebooks (lemmy.world)
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I'm looking to expand into having a online library and looking for some real world experiences and opinions. Ideally, looking for someone that worked well with docker and the various arrs.

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[–] whysofurious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Going a bit against the common suggestions here but my "workflow" is like this:

  • I download books through Z-Library, I tried in the past lazylibrarian and readarr/bookshelf, but I always ended up spending a lot of time on refining the search for non-english books, which was just way easier in Z-Library.
  • I tag/update metadata of books using Calibre of my laptop. I prefer to manually do that because while it took a few days to do it for my whole library, I don't really add books in such a high number that I can justify automating it or having a Calibre container on my homeserver. (I know Calibre Web Automated will do this, but see below). I use Hardcover to track my readings, so Calibre with the hardcover plugin makes it easy to find ids or HC editions for integrations with other apps I use.
  • After moving between Kavita, CWA and Booklore, I set up on Komga for library management. I found Komga's koreader sync way more stable and mature than the other options. I am a bit annoyed by the fact that (as in Kavita) each book/series folder is a series, but at the end of the day the pros outweighs the cons for me. I can manage custom reading lists or series, so it's not really an issue personally.