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So I’ve tried Jellyfin Book plug-in but since it doesn’t allow pinch-to-zoom (at least on my phone’s app) that will not work for me

I’ve already thinker with Kavita so I’ll probably be ok for the first install.

My problem come when I want to run it in the background (as a client ?) at this point I’m completely lost

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[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Looking at the website, when you run the binary, it runs a webserver too:

Step 3

Once the files are extracted to a location, run Kavita.exe to launch the server. Step 4

Open a browser window and go to: http://localhost:5000/