Can anyone who has experience with both share a recommendation? I’m interested in the user side of things for ebooks (no comics) but also ease of installation and maintenance.
I currently use Calibre-web and while it runs well, I find it cumbersome to organize my books through it.
The stack I use has been pretty solid:
- Calibre docker container accessible via Guacamole
- Calibre-Web docker container as “front-end”
- Readarr docker container to obtain new books via Usenet (primarily ALTHub)
- SABNzbd docker container to download
Readarr searches Usenet for books, then sends what it finds to SABNzbd, which downloads the file to a folder that Calibre watches, which then imports the book and adds it to its database, which Calibre-Web has access to, so in a minute or two it’s available in Calibre-Web for download/reading/conversion.
If for some reason the book isn’t available via Readarr/Usenet, it can be downloaded via other methods and uploaded to Calibre-Web, so everything ends up in the same place.
Same but i add lazylibrarian for mags
Man, I tried so hard to get LL working, but couldn’t make it happen. Maybe it’s time to try again…
Also dm me if you get stuck. I wrote the latest docs revision and used to mod /r/lazylibrarian
Its in a pretty good state right now. Docker setup is a breeze.
What makes it easier for me is i dont try to integrate with calibre. It has a setting to copy new books to calibre autoimport dir
Sumatra + tree of folders organized in Windows Explorer.
I used to use Kavita for ebooks and it was a pain to organize them. I usually just dump a bunch of .epubs into books directory, but it only recognizes books INSIDE of a folder. So, I just made a script to create a folder using the exact name and put the epub in it.
I tried Kavita first before moving over to calibre-web. Just with ebooks, no comics, the user experience in Kavita was a bit confusing (i.e. the way they reference books/series etc). Calibre-web does a much better job with ebooks imo. I will say the UI in Kavita is really nice. I have a Readarr->calibre->calibre-web stack, so Readarr/calibre takes care of organization for me, Calibre-web is essentially just a frontend to download and send to kindle
This is hilarious. I just set this up tonight. I use readarr to grab the books. Then Kavita Ingests them. Then I just use the app Pocketbook to read on my phone or tablet. It connects directly to your Kavita instance!
A self-hosted ebook solution would be nice. It’s surprising the holes in kindle even tbh
Calibre web easily sends to kindle and kobo. Works well
