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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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[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've tried komga and kavita both, but didn't find them very useful. Nowadays i just copy the files downloaded from nyaa to my kobo, where i read them with koreader. Its possible to sideload it on kindles, but its tricky. Koreader even has OPSD support, in case you want to use kavita/komga. But for most random/weekly reading I use Kotatsu on my tablet/phone, as it has a sync feature (you can even selfhost your own sync server!). For ebooks I also just use my ereader. I have no need for a bulky management system. I hope this helped you somehow. Good luck!

[–] whysofurious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks! Definitely helps and I am happy to see how people are approaching the problem. It seems indeed an automated/selfhosted solution is not always the best in this case. I will also check out Kotatsu, didn't know about that :)

[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Theres also a cli tool called kotatsu-dl that lets you download from all the websites the app can scrape, in case you want to read on your kindle but there arent any torrents.