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Looks for something like calibre web but not terrible

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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I've tried the a number of the ones being mentioned, but the best for me has been Audio bookshelf . It has a good mobile app, allows collections, tries to pull Metadata, offline reading for the apps, etc.

[–] bilbaobun@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Does it support epub?

[–] loanrangerofpeanuts@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

Look into Grimmory, the replacement for booklore. Apparently it’s the same maintainers just a fork since the creator of booklore closed it down (no major changes yet, just housekeeping). I’m happy with it.

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I have found Kavita to be excellent.

[–] thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Plus one for Kavita. Only slight bump is that it wants books to be in series because it's quite manga focused.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago

Calibre Web Automated is a completely different project. I am liking it so far.

Some people have also suggested Kavita.

I'm running Kavita. It's been good and tracks your reading progress. The catch is that there's no upload, you have to put your files on the disk and then rescan

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is there something specific you don't like about Calibre Web? Might help pinpoint the recommendations.

[–] bilbaobun@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Janky and doesn’t look nice

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Well, I'm not sure what 'janky' encompasses for you but when you add themepark, it looks much better.

[–] UndulyUnruly@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

The real MVP!

[–] shawn@thagoat.org 6 points 13 hours ago
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Did you try Calibre Web or Calibre Web Automated

Maybe CWA is what you're looking for?

https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 9 hours ago

It was the UI he didn't like so it's not going to be much different.