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.

Edit: great responses, thank you. I do like the idea of just having the epubs in a folder and share those but at least on my setup, the desktop Calibrw app doesn’t open libraries that are mounted from remote locations. They also advise against it.

So for now I guess it’s a choice between a local folder or calibre -web

  • TrenchcoatFullOfBats@belfry.rip
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

        • code@lemmy.mayes.io
          2·
          1 year ago

          Also dm me if you get stuck. I wrote the latest docs revision and used to mod /r/lazylibrarian

        • code@lemmy.mayes.io
          1·
          1 year ago

          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