Looking to remove Google play books from my life, so looking for something I can toss a bunch of stuff into and use.

Any good recommendations, with a decent UI?

  • Carcel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I set up calibre-web on my home server but didn’t use it for very long. I’ve got my books separated into fiction, nonfiction and technical libraries and calibre-web could only handle one library database. I would have had to run multiple instances to get the different libraries served. I also still had a need to use calibre on my desktop so it was necessary to reimport the database from my desktop into calibre-web to keep things in sync. If you’re going to manage everything in the web interface it might work for you. It was just kind of unnecessary for my needs.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nice! I hadn’t come across Kavita yet. I’ve been using CalibeWeb for years and always found it dated and clunky. I haven’t tried the demo yet, but the screenshots and feature list seem like it’s Jellyfin for ebooks. I’ll have to spin that up and give it a go.

      • Carcel@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Looks clean and the screenshots look like it supports multiple libraries. Their demo site won’t log in but I might spin it up this weekend and play with it. I still probably don’t really have a use case for it. I’m always going to need calibre on the desktop. Ubooquity is another that I tried but still had the same lack of use. One of these days I might want to move to a web based solution but not really there right now.

    • lodronsi@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m running calibre in a docker container, and have 3-4 libraries setup. I am able to access them all through the built in web service. I know it’s not the same as calibre-web but just want to point this out.

      I can’t compare the reading options between the two though, having only tried the one option myself.