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Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by whysofurious@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I would like to start managing ebooks and manga properly. I don't have many, but I plan on increasing my collection. My requirements are not so strict, I don't mind getting the books/manga myself, but I am also curious about setting up LazyLibrarian at one point, is it worth it? (I already have other *arrs installed on my server). I had similar thoughts about Suwayomi.

My confusion starts from the accessories around all this: Calibre, CalibreWeb/Automated, Komga, Kavita, Audiobookshelf, etc. Does having a Kindle as reading device limits my possibilities to use any of these? Is setting up e.g. both CalibreWeb and Kavita redundant?

I guess my question is how is everyone using these services for their own library :)

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The latest Kindle update broke the jailbreak even if it was installed, so you'll need to stop updates. You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

I'm planning on getting a Kobo Clara BW when my Kindle dies (it's currently got holes at the corners and a few dodgy-sounding rattles so soon™). Then I can use Koreader+Calibre-web to download books and sync read state like you can do with Amazon.

So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?

Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they're not going into series properly.

[–] whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

That's sadly true. I am thinking of waiting for the kindle to die too, but I was looking more at the onyx boox go 6, since I already know I can run whatever I want on there.

Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they're not going into series properly.

I see, thanks! Do you mind if I ask you where you can find them with some good metadata? My attempts have been not so good until now..

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Most of the manga I have is amateur translated stuff, so the metadata quality varies with release groups.

The graphic novels are generally retail releases, but sometimes I still want to edit to get rid of marketing words (e.g. the title might mention how it's now a Netflix series or something).