Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.

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    5 hours ago

    I needed Kobo/KOreader support, calibre-web handles this nicely. Looking to set up annotation/note sync over the weekend, then it’ll be perfect.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      4 hours ago

      I got a kobo recently and was amazed to find you can sync it with calibre-web to basically run your own book store. Browse and download any books from your server. Pretty cool.

    • mesa@piefed.socialOP
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      4 hours ago

      calibre is pretty great. I also have a kobo and its the reason I can load/convert a lot of what I read.

    • nfreak@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      I need to figure this out for my wife, she got one recently and I’ve been dabbling with different services but haven’t hooked the thing up to anything yet. Right now I’ve got Shelfmark and Booklore running which seem like they’ll do the job just fine, but need to explore some more