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

  • BingBong@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    I enjoy booklore, was easy to setup. I don’t think its very matureyet though. Just updated last night and an annoying bug where sometimes books wouldn’t show up after import has been fixed, so the upside is active development!

    Honestly most of these look to be almost the same so I’m not sure what the key defining features would be.

    • loanrangerofpeanuts@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Been using booklore for a few months now. It definitely has that new car smell to it while also having lots of small irritating bugs or UX oversights (like moving books from one shelf to another doesn’t actually deselect them so selecting another book and moving it to a different shelf moves every previously selected book to that new shelf). Keep in mind I haven’t added or altered anything in my library in about a month so this could’ve been fixed. I still think it works better than calibre-web which is what I switched from and I definitely think it’s worth a quick setup on docker.