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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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SweetMylk@lemm.ee
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Just copy to the reader?

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satanmat@lemmy.world
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Kindle screens are very good , but eff Bezos

An iPad is versatile, but then Apple…

But FOR ME, I cannot read books on a computer screen, it is just too awkward.

So yes I iPad.

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robolemmy@lemmy.world
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if you want an e-ink screen, there’s always kobo and/or boox.

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Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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Kobo is good.

Unless they have changed something recently, Boox violates the GPL.

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darcmage@lemm.ee
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Kobo with calibre-web sync has been great. Calibre-web github.

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satanmat@lemmy.world
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Ooo. Thank you.

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Kaavi@lemmy.world
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Honestly I’ve been using Google play books for years, just upload pdf or epub and you have it on phone, ipad and computer. Plus it remembers how far you are on between devices.

Readarr for storing on own server, before I upload them.

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ikidd@lemmy.world
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I use Calibre with FBReader on a few android devices. You set up calibre as a web server and FBreader just connects to it directly. It stores reading position on Gdrive or dropbox, unfortunately not on NC or other self-hosted storage.

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