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Plex for books? (feddit.uk)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've picked up an eink Android tablet, which is awesome. However I have plenty of ebooks I've purchased over the years on places such as Humble, and I was wondering whether there was a self hosted solution like Plex/Emby/Jellyfin but designed for ebooks.

I've seen Calibre but it doesn't seem to be quite the same thing, and running a sync is a bit clunky for the spouse factor.

Is there anything that would index the books, show a bookshelf and allow me to read them, with offline support?

Preferably with an Android app for reading with, and the reader handling eink rather than scrolling.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Audiobookshelf claims to have ebook support. I only use it for audio books so I cannot say whether it's good for that or not.

It works great for the audio books.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I use it for digital books and it works great. You can configure it to send a book to an email so it appears automatically. The auto tagging works well too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Support for ebooks is honestly pretty good. The reader is mid tier at best but it'll only get better, hopefully.