Looking to remove Google play books from my life, so looking for something I can toss a bunch of stuff into and use.

Any good recommendations, with a decent UI?

  • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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    For ebooks, my wife uses caliber and I use Kavita. No real reason to use one over the other I dont think. I like them both although Kavita has a slightly better reader for my liking. Both are a snap to self host and add books to.

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      +1 for Kavita, though I don’t use it for reading. I use OPDS in Kavita to read books on my phone (using MoonReader+ on Android) and share books with family.

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      I second calibre as well. I also use calibre-web as my front end for it. It has a very clean interface and user management if that’s your thing

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    I set up calibre-web on my home server but didn’t use it for very long. I’ve got my books separated into fiction, nonfiction and technical libraries and calibre-web could only handle one library database. I would have had to run multiple instances to get the different libraries served. I also still had a need to use calibre on my desktop so it was necessary to reimport the database from my desktop into calibre-web to keep things in sync. If you’re going to manage everything in the web interface it might work for you. It was just kind of unnecessary for my needs.

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        Nice! I hadn’t come across Kavita yet. I’ve been using CalibeWeb for years and always found it dated and clunky. I haven’t tried the demo yet, but the screenshots and feature list seem like it’s Jellyfin for ebooks. I’ll have to spin that up and give it a go.

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        Looks clean and the screenshots look like it supports multiple libraries. Their demo site won’t log in but I might spin it up this weekend and play with it. I still probably don’t really have a use case for it. I’m always going to need calibre on the desktop. Ubooquity is another that I tried but still had the same lack of use. One of these days I might want to move to a web based solution but not really there right now.

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      I’m running calibre in a docker container, and have 3-4 libraries setup. I am able to access them all through the built in web service. I know it’s not the same as calibre-web but just want to point this out.

      I can’t compare the reading options between the two though, having only tried the one option myself.

  • Elbullazul@lem.elbullazul.com
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    I use Komga, and for my tablet use Tachiyomi + komga plugin (there’s also a plug-in for kavita), I find it’s a better experience than using an OPDS reader

  • Alpha272@lemmy.alpha272.eu
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    Kavita is the best one I used. But to be honest, there aren’t really great solutions for that out there… at least not as far as I can tell…