I would like to start managing ebooks and manga properly. I don’t have many, but I plan on increasing my collection. My requirements are not so strict, I don’t mind getting the books/manga myself, but I am also curious about setting up LazyLibrarian at one point, is it worth it? (I already have other *arrs installed on my server). I had similar thoughts about Suwayomi.

My confusion starts from the accessories around all this: Calibre, CalibreWeb/Automated, Komga, Kavita, Audiobookshelf, etc. Does having a Kindle as reading device limits my possibilities to use any of these? Is setting up e.g. both CalibreWeb and Kavita redundant?

I guess my question is how is everyone using these services for their own library :)

  • whysofurious@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    You could just leave it in airplane mode, but not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.

    That’s sadly true. I am thinking of waiting for the kindle to die too, but I was looking more at the onyx boox go 6, since I already know I can run whatever I want on there.

    Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they’re not going into series properly.

    I see, thanks! Do you mind if I ask you where you can find them with some good metadata? My attempts have been not so good until now…

    • Deebster@programming.devEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Most of the manga I have is amateur translated stuff, so the metadata quality varies with release groups.

      The graphic novels are generally retail releases, but sometimes I still want to edit to get rid of marketing words (e.g. the title might mention how it’s now a Netflix series or something).