Are any of you hosting their own E-Books? If so which Software are you using and is it compatible with the E-Reader of your choice (if you use one)?
I don’t have an E-Books nor do I have an E-Reader, but I’m considering to dig deeper into the business and wanted to hear your stories.
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Yes, many people host their own e-books using platforms like Calibre, Sigil, or Pressbooks, which allow for easy formatting and distribution. Calibre, for example, is highly compatible with most e-readers, making it a popular choice. If you’re just starting, you might also explore websites that let you download free softwares for e-book management, giving you the flexibility to test different formats before committing to a specific tool.
Calibre Server to host.
KOreader to install on my favorite reader and direct connect to calibre.
Pocketbook as my favorite reader.
I use Jellyfin. You have to install the Bookshelf plugin (or at least I didn’t the time I set it up, may be a default now). Saves progress, and gives me one less service to manage as I use Jellyfin for Movies, TV, and Music libraries already.
I do this too. When I want a better reader I just download the book to my device and read it with any number of apps
I’m using calibre as server and moon+ reader (pro) as reader. I can download the ebooks from my calibre server and with the pro version of moin+ reader I can sync reading positions (and books) between devices. This way I can continue reading on the phone where I was on the tablet while traveling.
Same, I’ve been doing this for years. It’s just flawless.
Calibre on local machine, sharing a database with self-hosted calibre-web, OPDS enabled using a Kobo to read.
I don’t like Ubooquity, but Calibre somehow seems worse.
Using a Kobo reader with Calibre & Calibre-web to serve the books.
Setup a shelf on web, create a sync token on web. Add token to the Kobo config, automatically syncs any books that are added to the shelf. This replaces the Kobo store api for syncing, but I don’t use it so no biggie for me.
Did you have to do anything special to get the Kobo sync working? I followed the instructions and nothing worked for me …
I just followed the instructions here and it worked right away.
Just set it up and working perfectly, thanks!
I shall try again, thanks!
Audiobook server does work with ebooks.
My flow is GoodReads (tracking/requesting) -> Readarr (manage downloads) -> Calibre (manage library/metadata) -> Calibre-Web (user friendly browsing/serving) and then I can send to kindle or download or whatever from Caliber-Web. I download from Usenets/Libgen/Openbooks
Calibre.
I use calibre to manage my library. Well, mostly just to put them into one place. But to browse/read/download books I’ve written my own service reads the calibre sqlite database and serves it as a web page. It doesn’t have opds support yet, but I’m looking into that. Check it out here: https://sr.ht/~ilikeorangutans/books/
I use Calibre with FBReader on a few android devices. You set up calibre as a web server and FBreader just connects to it directly. It stores reading position on Gdrive or dropbox, unfortunately not on NC or other self-hosted storage.
Calibre-Web for serving, Calibre in a container to automatically ingest from designated folder, and Apple Books or GoodReader to read.
I manage my library on my laptop with Calibre, then replicate that to a server with Syncthing and serve it up via OPDS with COPS:
https://github.com/seblucas/cops
I like this because COPS is simple and easy to set up. It does just what I need and nothing else.
I read on a old jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite running KOReader.
I run BicBucStrim on my NAS, and I access it through the web browser of any PC or tablet, my Kobo eReader, or Mobiscribe eReader. You can download a book to the device to read it, though. It basically just generates a nice web layout to access your Calibre library.
