Honestly, I’m personally not just after a self hosting solution, I’m mostly trying to replace US services and companies. As part of that, I’ve started using Jellyfin and I think it’s great.
Now I’m thinking about replacing Kindle reader. I think I’ve got three use cases:
- Research papers
- Textbooks
- Novels / Non-fiction
The main device I’d do most of my reading on is an iPhone but I’d also be wanting to open up the research papers and textbooks on my MacBook. I’d want to be able to add research papers from the iPhone, or at least a light weight way to list them to quickly add later.
Note taking and highlighting isn’t an issue, I’ve started using markdown for this. Syncing is. Ideally between devices but on the one device would work too.
I figure I’ll have to drop some of my aims here but I thought I’d see if anyone knows of decent setups to try.
Since there is a mandated image here I’m starting to wonder if I’m really in the wrong place, but I put textbook cover there
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.
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.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
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.