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Android tablet phone here.
Manga - Mihon
Ebooks - ReadEra premium
I use calibre on my PC to manage ebooks, but I often download directly on my phone.
I use TTS (Text to speech, paid feature) to listen to my ebooks. Sometimes I use @Voice (free with ADs) to listen to books. It's better for that.
Thanks! Never heard of both, but I will definitely check them out :)
Mihon is the successor to takiyomi. It's a manga website scrapper. But it also supports some self hosted solutions for reading across devices.
Make sure to add this special repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keiyoushi/extensions/repo/index.min.json
Mihon guide here: https://everythingmoe.com/post/mihonguide.html
It really sounds like you're trying to setup a centralized solution for media consumption and I might be confusing you with my recommendations.
I read on only one device so this works for me. Mihon supports self hosted solutions. ReadEra is just a nice reading client. I manage it with a file explorer and netshare (Solid explorer)
No worries! I was pretty much confused myself from the beginning, so I am definitely open to any workflow :) And I do plan to read on one device only as well. My centralized approach was mostly about saving space on the tablet/reader and a possibly easier management and freedom to move to something else in the future, rather than a strict requirement.
I used to have tachyomi on my eink tablet, so this definitely rings a bell, but I thought the only working solution was Suwayomi.
I will look into Mihon and its support of selfhosted solutions then, seems like a nice combination :)
If you want simplicity I recommend skipping all self hosted solutions. You can set mihon to download X chapters ahead for offline reading and delete chapters as you read. On a kindle I'd recommend save as archive and/or cut tall images (webtoons).
Ebooks take no space.
Stick to calibre on your computer and transfer via netshare using a file browser (android: solid explorer) to copy stuff over. That's what I do.
Thanks! I am open to try both selfhosted and local solutions, let's see how they work out :) Definitely going to check mihon which was recommended by someone else too, seems like a pretty easy solution (and thanks for the tips about the kindle).