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Thanks, that's all I needed to know :)

Nice, thanks for the details :) Suwayomi usually obtains png as far as I remember, is Kavita able to read anything that Suwayomi gets, without issues or post-processing needed? Sorry for the many questions^^

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 :)

That seems nice, thanks for sharing! I read Kavita has some weird requirements for path organization for it to work correctly, or do I remember wrong? Do you also do metadata editing in Kavita itself?

Thanks so much for sharing and for such a detailed answer! I understand where you are coming from, I don't have a tablet so for me an e-ink reader would not be too much (I work on my laptop most of the day and I don't like reading on the phone, so a device like that is a sweet spot for me).

I tend to mostly read bw manga (webtoons I read it on my laptop usually), but I heard the same about e-ink colored devices (and most generally that you "shouldn't" read bw on colored eink screen).

For the same reason as yours (mandatory calibre for transferring), I am looking at Onyx Boox e-ink devices, which are basically android tablets but with an eink screen. This gives me the freedom to install whatever app or sync I want, limit my exposure with something like nextdns, remove google stuff as much as I can, and things like that.

In the end I guess it's a balance between actual functionality and convenience, if a whole pipeline become too hard to manage than doing some parts manually might actually be better.

Thanks! Never heard of both, but I will definitely check them out :)

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..

Interesting, thanks! I agree with you about using specific tools for different purposes. Tbf my kindle is a 2018 model put on airplane mode since 2021, maybe I can do something about Koreader.

About comics/manga, didn't know about comictagger, it seems very good. So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?

I am not sure about how lightweight they are (but I guess more than WordPress for sure) but on the federated side of things you have plume (https://joinplu.me/) and writefreely (https://writefreely.org/) that you can selfhost. Not super sure about how much you can customize them.

Thanks for the composerize link, it's super useful indeed!

Yeah I took a quick look at podman and nope for now 😂 docker compose it is and it's working wonderfully :)

Don't really know what some of these things are, which also means I haven't encountered them (yet), if I will I'll make sure to read more about it. To be honest, for now I'm just doing normal compose, everything behind tailscale. At one point I'll need something like caddy for a reverse proxy to help with sharing services with a couple of family members, but always behind tailscale, no public exposure.

Yup I read about the folder thing but got stung by it as well ahah

Thank for taking the time to explain, I am almost done with the transition of all my services and I did exactly like you suggested and everything works perfecty! :)