App or service to self host ebooks?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨WestyFlyer@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Does anyone know of a self hosting option for hosting ebooks? I keep hoping there is an open source library type app where I could add my ebooks and host them for myself and others.

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ventrix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Check out the docker version of calibre if you’re into that hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/calibre-web

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exu@feditown.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use Kavita to host ebooks and manga for myself. It’s still work in progress, so do expect changes, though I haven’t had huge issues on the stable releases so far. Besides Tachiyomi for comics/manga there aren’t any native reading apps yet, so you will have to use the webinterface for the time being.

Another option often mentioned is Calibre Web, though I haven’t used that myself.

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- TableCoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ll throw in my vote for Kavita. Works great. I read a lot on my phone so I just saved the app shortcut to my home screen from Firefox.
  
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- keyez@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I use kavita and kavitaEmail as well and haven’t had issues. I like the email service so I can send a book to my kindle when I want to start it.
  
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mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
maybe this - github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

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Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Caliber is great, but if you have audiobooks, aidiobookshelf has gotten pretty decent at hosting ebooks too

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jcolag@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s not as clean a solution as they’d like it to be, but for another option, Jellyfin hosts media including books. When I say “not as clean,” I mean that you can stream video and music from the server, but it has you download books to read on another device. Last I heard, they were looking to integrate at least a PDF viewer into the interface, though.

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TheInsane42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I run calibre, it has a server option, which can be queries bij Moon+ reader. (which I use) My setup is internal use only though.

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pete@social.cyano.at ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Take a look at Calibre-Web (github.com/janeczku/calibre-we…) which I've been using for what you ask for quite a while now. As the name suggests it can also take advantage of a pre-existing Calibre eBook Database.
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