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Plex for books? (feddit.uk)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

You're probably looking for something that supports OPDS to automatically download e-books to your e-reader.

First search result is Komga

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

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Thank you. Half the battle is learning the correct terminology!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The calibre content server also serves OPDS. Once you have a OPDS server in place you'll need to point a capable reader at it, but after that syncing and reading happens in the reader.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Calibre-web supports OPDS and uses the Calibre database.