I’ve picked up an eink Android tablet, which is awesome. However I have plenty of ebooks I’ve purchased over the years on places such as Humble, and I was wondering whether there was a self hosted solution like Plex/Emby/Jellyfin but designed for ebooks.

I’ve seen Calibre but it doesn’t seem to be quite the same thing, and running a sync is a bit clunky for the spouse factor.

Is there anything that would index the books, show a bookshelf and allow me to read them, with offline support?

Preferably with an Android app for reading with, and the reader handling eink rather than scrolling.

    • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 months ago

      This.

      We each have an account. Login to the web interface. Choose the desired book. Click send. The epub is emailed to our Kindle.

      Running calibre-web off a docker instance. Library is on my NAS.

      I use the Window client to add books, handle conversions, and manage things since I have specialized plugins. You can read via the web app as well, but I prefer my ancient Paperwhite.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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        9 months ago

        The epub is emailed to our Kindle.

        Amazon have been making this harder and harder. Originally you could define an allowlist of senders, and any emails from those senders would go to the Kindle. Then they changed it so you have to click a link in an email to approve it. Now, you have to go to Amazon, find the Kindle content page (which is well hidden), and click a button to approve it.

        If you know a workaround for that then I’d love to hear it.

  • scholar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Jellyfin has ebook support and allows you to download them for offline reading, which I reccommend because the ebook viewer is very basic

    • PanaX@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I can confirm and I do use this feature of jellyfin. It works great. The reader is unusable. I use Librera for reading. It’s great, free, and open source.

      So my flow is biblio, mam, library Genesis, Anna’s. Then to jellyfin folder that it reads automatically. Then I can download that to any device connected to the jellyfin server. Local is easy, abroad through tailscale.

  • uzay@infosec.pubEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I think kavita works fairly well. It doesn’t have an app, but it comes with a built-in OPDS server, so you can just plug the link into any app that supports it and access all your book. For eink devices I recommend koreader. For other devices you may prefer an app with a less confusing UI, but that’s a matter of preference. Alternatively the kavita webclient has a reader as well.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I use Kavita. I have some minor complaints but in general it works.

      I haven’t tried others though, so can’t say if it’s the best or not.

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    • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      The reader itself leaves a lot to be desired though. There’s literally no UI besides the arrow keys and no way to configure font rendering etc. It’s cool that the functionality is there, but it needs work.

  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    I’ve been looking for something like this for a while. Calibre is great for managing it on a personal machine, but I want something that I can use on the web and then, with a click, send a book to a Kindle or whatever.

  • snakedrake@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    So not a solution you’re asking for but the remarkable e-ink tablet has a great set of apps for mobile devices and computers. It hosts your books in the cloud so you’ll always have access to stuff anywhere with internet. Automatically syncs across devices. Pretty slick.

    • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yeah. An eInk device that can run an Android file browser and just grab eBook files off the local network is a fantastic solution.