Comment on Looking for a good kindle reader alternative
kmoney@lemmy.kmoneyserver.com 1 day ago
I think Booklore ticks all your boxes. It has opds as well as kobo syncing. You can also read via the built-in reader on the web to keep things synced. It supports separate libraries so you can keep your textbooks and research papers separate.
It’s being pretty actively developed with new features every few weeks. I’ve been very pleased with it after trying half a dozen other alternatives that were never quite smooth enough.
I’ve been happy with Calibre Web and downloading to the official reader apps, but I’m open to try new things.
What strikes me as odd is why starting a Java software in this day and age. Java in the server is the COBOL of the 2000s, mostly used for legacy software.
other_cat@piefed.zip 1 day ago
The devs are also pretty responsive to bug reports!
I will say that they themselves have mentioned that there is kind of a limit in library size because the project is meant to serve “small to modest personal libraries” but I think it was ranked as a few thousand, so that won’t be a problem for most people I think.
hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
A few thousand means ?
I have 11000 ebooks on Calibre and am looking at alternatives.
other_cat@piefed.zip 1 day ago
I believe the numbers I saw were about 3-5k, so it might not handle your collection well. However, I encourage you to check their github to confirm rather than just go off my vague recollection alone.