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Here Are Your Choices for a Self-hosted eBook Server (itsfoss.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.

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[–] 40 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The one I've enjoyed the most is https://www.audiobookshelf.org/, it may be "focused" on audio books, but works really well for everything. It also supports offline mode (meaning downloading local copies in the app).

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Wait you use it also for epub/pdf? How does that work, can you connect a client and grab it from there? Can you have both an audiobook and text version of the same book?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You can read using the web client or dedicated apps (android and ios). I feel like the clients work just as good if not better than similar software.

    I haven't tested how it handles two versions (audio/ebook) of the same book, but I have ebooks and audio books and it works well for me.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That’s really cool. After I replied I also remembered you can have multiple libraries in audiobookshelf so even if side-by-side doesn’t work it shouldn’t be an issue.

    Unfortunately I love my Readest reading app too much to switch away but it’s nevertheless good to know for other family members.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I do the same. It is not perfect for it but it works and it is already running. I'm not sure I would recommend it for anyone not looking for audiobooks

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I tried Calibre web and Kogma.

    Calibre is just bad software at this point, it's clunky and not really designed as a server.

    Kogma was fine, but a web only interface made it hit or miss. The big selling point for me with audio bookshelf was the ability to download local copies.

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