I didn’t downvote anything fwiw.
Comment on calibre 8.0
otter@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoI’ve heard Kobo is better than the other big players when it comes to interoperability with open formats / self hosted setups.
As for the servers
The main one
github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
A popular newer one
github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
Also let’s not downvote good faith comments, especially when they’re phrased as a question and wanting to learn more
solrize@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
otter@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I should have specified, people we’re downvoting you
But looks like the score is positive again 🙂
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Kobo has a great balance of good hardware, good price, and good openness. It’s not perfect on any of those categories, it just strikes a nice middle ground balance to make it an extremely popular ereader for people who require the kind of openness people like us do. There’s really nothing locked down about them, they don’t do anything in particular to make it easy, but they don’t do anything to make it hard either. “koreader” installs very nicely on Kobo devices, and then you just load your books and you’re basically off to the races.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Another option for some Kobos is Inkbox/QuillOS. It’s a full open source OS replacement and is very cool. It was very usable last summer when I tried it out on my Kobo Lara HD and is probably even better now.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
There’s also an OPDS server option with
calibre-webthat you can use to load books from if you’re usingkoreader.You can also use the Kobo server replacement option with
calibre-webalthough I personally couldn’t get it to work at the time I tried it. But this will give you a sync option that works like the official Kobo server which is quite nice.