Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks?
hangonasecond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I use abs and it’s great. My partner listens to audiobooks, I read ebooks. You just have them side by side in the library, and in the audiobookshelf android app you can choose between stream or read. You also don’t need to store them side by side, the metadata can put them together clientside anyway. I guess this would be the way to go if you thought you might try a diff ebook hosting service later.
If all you do with your ebooks is read them, I daresay you’ll have no issues because I haven’t. Supports volume controls for page turn and that’s all that I want.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thanks, this is really helpful! Do you use the same app for both? Is it the abs client or something else?
hangonasecond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I use the Audiobookshelf app from AdvPlyr on the play store. I’ve been meaning to try Lissen since it’s on F-Droid, but I tried this to make sure my partner didn’t have any issues.
If I’m using it on my PC I just connect to the web UI.
I connect on all my devices with tailscale. My partner uses the same but has apparently been having issues with her phone not being able to access the tailnet when not on the same LAN. It’s not so bad though, the Audiobookshelf app lets her download her books. This works better anyway, since she travels for work and often has no service anyway.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Re tailscale: not sure if it is a technical issue or not, but my wife found it helpful when I added a toggle to the Quick Settings menu, which shows when it is running and can restart it with one tap.
hangonasecond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh! Appreciate the tip. I’ll investigate this weekend
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I ended up spinning up audiobookshelf. It’s fine for audiobooks, and I immediately installed Lissen (alongside ABS) and it is clearly preferable to me.
Lissen does not recognize ebooks at all, and I also didn’t have success with the comic book I tested on the ABS client, so I may try another service for those. For now audiobooks are the higher priority and I am very happy with those. Thanks for the input - I really appreciate it.
hangonasecond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No worries! I’ve used the calibre app for ebooks in the past and it does quite well.