cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/36285077

I have many ebooks I have from scouring the Internet in two formats: epub and PDF. I want something server like that lets me drop read them from any device on my local network and remembers where I left the book on device and let’s me continue on another. I want the client app to have android and Linux support while the server should run on linux. Is there anything out there? Bonus points if it autographs metadata from the internet and organises them by topics, authors, ddc etc.

TLDR: An ebook library running on a Linux server with Android and Linux client software.

  • @[email protected]English
    17•6 months ago

    Sounds like you want Calibre + Calibre-Web! Web has a nice frontend that lets you send to Kindle, or download or just read right there. There are definitely apps that let you link to that library and read the books that way. If you have a different ebook that supports KOReader, even better. You can add your calibre Web

    Someone below mentioned Audiobookshelf which is great but it for audiobooks.

    • StritEnglish
      2•6 months ago

      Sure, it was originally designed for Audiobooks, but it handles ebooks really well. It also does podcasts if you are so inclined.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•6 months ago

        I really like AB. I run it in a container and access it through a VPN. The only problem I’ve run into is that it sometimes won’t download new episodes of podcasts. I have to restart the container or manually check. Anyone know what’s going on?

    • TipponEnglish
      3•6 months ago

      That looks ideal for me too, thanks for the link :)

      Do you know if it works offline? So if I start an ebook or audiobook then lose my internet connection, can I carry on with the book?

      • @[email protected]English
        3•6 months ago

        I haven’t tested the ebook functionality and I mostly use it for podcasts, but you should be able to download on the mobile client at least.

        And if you’ve hosted it at home it will continue to work on the LAN if your internet connection goes down.

        • TipponEnglish
          2•6 months ago

          Brilliant, thank you :)

          I’m going to give it a go over the weekend and see what happens :)

  • @keyezEnglish
    5•6 months ago

    I use Kavita since I don’t get audiobooks and found out about it before ABS. I convert amazon bought ebooks to epub using calibre and put them on my unraid server to get picked up by kavita. Any epub can be emailed from kavita to my device.