Generate a massive eBook Library reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allyed · 2023-11-18 11:03 Hi guys I'm asking for assistance in a very specific topic, creating a large eBook Collection. I want to create a big library for my parents to be able to pick and choose books from, I have a place already that has a lot of eBooks available in great format, but I wasn't able to find a solution on how to get all/most of these downloaded locally, put in some understandable categories and generating some description for them. I'm self-hosting stuff on an old HP Server in a TrueNAS Scale Environment so I'm mainly looking for things available in TrueCharts, but anything outside of that would be great too. What I'm specifically looking for is the following: \- Get all the available eBooks from the site and download a unique copy of it, no matter the author, title, genre, etc \- Sort them by writer, or genre \- Collect metadata for the book if it's not already available in the ePUB file \- Make this library available to a reader application to android devices Long story short, I want to create a huge library of eBooks for my parents as they can't do much else besides reading. So far I've tried Readarr but the metadata servers are currently down, Lazy Librarian but I didn't find a method to mass add anything to the wanted queue, and I've also used Ubooquity to make the books available to Moon Reader application. This is basically where my experiences end. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Brent_the_constraint · 2023-11-18 12:14 Calibre ---------------------------------------------------------------------- repolevedamai · 2023-11-18 12:22 I use this for the UI https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web, works pretty great and syncs with my kobo directly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mar_floof · 2023-11-18 12:25 This. The sync is a bit annoying to get working but once you do it’s a game changer. I have thousands of books and manga in my version and it works great. Hosted out of a docker image without issue ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allyed · 2023-11-18 12:39 Does it handle the download of books, or you do that manually ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Empyre51789 · 2023-11-18 12:50 Lazy librarian should work for you if I remember correctly ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Allyed · 2023-11-18 13:00 Could Lazy Librarian just grab everything from a tracker or do I need to add Authors or Books one by one ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Empyre51789 · 2023-11-18 13:03 Haven't used it in a while but a quick Google looks like there's an alternative called readar you could check out. I'm unfamiliar with it so I won't be able to help much there ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Trustworthy_Fartzzz · 2023-11-18 13:39 No, it won’t. You’ll want the following stack to automatically download: - Prowlarr - Readarr - Calibre - Calibre-Web (or another reader) Calibre/Calibre-Web can then handle sending them to Kindles and such. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LastTreestar · 2023-11-18 13:42 Do you mind sharing your docker config/setup? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FarhanYusufzai · 2023-11-18 17:04 libgen, but a few of those sites have gone down ---------------------------------------------------------------------- smegheadkryten · 2023-11-18 17:57 I use [readarr](https://readarr.com/), [calibre](https://calibre- ebook.com/), [calibre-web](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web), and [qbittorrent-vpn](https://hub.docker.com/r/dyonr/qbittorrentvpn/) . Works great. I add a couple goodread lists to the readarr import, and it gets everything my friends/family want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CringeGinge666 · 2023-11-18 18:52 I found Readarr similarly underwhelming, but OpenBooks is really good and easy to use. It downloads straight away to the client and the optionally also the host, so the books are stored in the library permanently. I have Calibre monitor the host's download folder and use Calibre-web for the frontend, but I would assume Moon Reader would work decently with Calibre too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lesigh · 2023-11-19 03:17 Drop ebooks into an incoming calibre, have it convert to format you like, have it auto add to calibre web ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OkOk-Go · 2023-11-19 19:32 For the actual hosting, you can set up a Nextcloud instance or even a simple network share. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OverlordQ · 2023-11-21 23:31 readarr has been broken for a bit, it's dependent on a single-point- of-failure metadata host. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- frasderp · 2023-11-22 12:00 Hey can you share how you sync with kobo? I have been using calibre for a long time with kobo, have some custom columns setup (for book title notes, kobo collections etc) - can it support that also? Does it support syncing read progress? (If I use it over cable I can for example) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- repolevedamai · 2023-11-22 17:34 I'm not at the laptop atm, but I have it hosted in the free tier instance under docker and access it through a free ddns domain. Not sure about the custom column in calibre-web as I've never tried it, but check their github page. I don't think it supports sync progress yet, at least for kobo and last time I checked.