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Favourite Software for hosting E-Books

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Are any of you hosting their own E-Books? If so which Software are you using and is it compatible with the E-Reader of your choice (if you use one)?

I don’t have an E-Books nor do I have an E-Reader, but I’m considering to dig deeper into the business and wanted to hear your stories.

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Fermiverse@feddit.de
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Calibre Server to host.

KOreader to install on my favorite reader and direct connect to calibre.

Pocketbook as my favorite reader.

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nhowell77@sh.itjust.works
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I use Jellyfin. You have to install the Bookshelf plugin (or at least I didn’t the time I set it up, may be a default now). Saves progress, and gives me one less service to manage as I use Jellyfin for Movies, TV, and Music libraries already.

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entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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I do this too. When I want a better reader I just download the book to my device and read it with any number of apps

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TheInsane42@lemmy.world
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I’m using calibre as server and moon+ reader (pro) as reader. I can download the ebooks from my calibre server and with the pro version of moin+ reader I can sync reading positions (and books) between devices. This way I can continue reading on the phone where I was on the tablet while traveling.

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linearchaos@lemmy.world
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Same, I’ve been doing this for years. It’s just flawless.

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TadeuszBonawentura@kbin.social
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Calibre, Kavita or Ubooquity

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jacksilver@lemmy.world
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I don’t like Ubooquity, but Calibre somehow seems worse.

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Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Calibre on local machine, sharing a database with self-hosted calibre-web, OPDS enabled using a Kobo to read.

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