Are any of you hosting their own E-Books? If so which Software are you using and is it compatible with the E-Reader of your choice (if you use one)?

I don’t have an E-Books nor do I have an E-Reader, but I’m considering to dig deeper into the business and wanted to hear your stories.

  • ilikeorangutans@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I use calibre to manage my library. Well, mostly just to put them into one place. But to browse/read/download books I’ve written my own service reads the calibre sqlite database and serves it as a web page. It doesn’t have opds support yet, but I’m looking into that. Check it out here: https://sr.ht/~ilikeorangutans/books/

  • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Kindle screens are very good , but eff Bezos

    An iPad is versatile, but then Apple…

    But FOR ME, I cannot read books on a computer screen, it is just too awkward.

    So yes I iPad.

  • Kaavi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Honestly I’ve been using Google play books for years, just upload pdf or epub and you have it on phone, ipad and computer. Plus it remembers how far you are on between devices.

    Readarr for storing on own server, before I upload them.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I use Calibre with FBReader on a few android devices. You set up calibre as a web server and FBreader just connects to it directly. It stores reading position on Gdrive or dropbox, unfortunately not on NC or other self-hosted storage.

  • relaymoth@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Using a Kobo reader with Calibre & Calibre-web to serve the books.

    Setup a shelf on web, create a sync token on web. Add token to the Kobo config, automatically syncs any books that are added to the shelf. This replaces the Kobo store api for syncing, but I don’t use it so no biggie for me.

  • SiblingNoah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Calibre-Web for serving, Calibre in a container to automatically ingest from designated folder, and Apple Books or GoodReader to read.

  • zaphod@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I manage my library on my laptop with Calibre, then replicate that to a server with Syncthing and serve it up via OPDS with COPS:

    https://github.com/seblucas/cops

    I like this because COPS is simple and easy to set up. It does just what I need and nothing else.

    I read on a old jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite running KOReader.

  • chandz05@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    My flow is GoodReads (tracking/requesting) -> Readarr (manage downloads) -> Calibre (manage library/metadata) -> Calibre-Web (user friendly browsing/serving) and then I can send to kindle or download or whatever from Caliber-Web. I download from Usenets/Libgen/Openbooks

  • Someology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I run BicBucStrim on my NAS, and I access it through the web browser of any PC or tablet, my Kobo eReader, or Mobiscribe eReader. You can download a book to the device to read it, though. It basically just generates a nice web layout to access your Calibre library.