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Plex for books? (feddit.uk)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Calibre does all the management and conversion/reading/other but you have to do the initial work of cataloging them.

Afaik it won’t download covers. Maybe it does now, idk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of a good reader app, and it required me to use the web view. Unless there is one that I missed?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I run calibre off my desktop. You can enable the Calibre content server and it can serve up your books for download (or provide a web reader).

If you have an Android device, you can use something like Moon Reader (or any other reading app that supports epub or Pdf) to download content from the Calibre content server.

With respect to covers and metadata, Calibre can tag and fill in this info as well - out of the box it will scrape information from Amazon.