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I threw away Audible’s app, and now I self-host my audiobooks - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

What I really want is a a similar project for epub files. I’ve not been able to find a web based library that allows easy download and auth based management.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Audiobookshelf supports EPUB files and other ebook formats. You can put them alongside audiobooks (offering a UI option to either read or listen) or use purely ebooks although obviously a little overkill if you aren't using the audio features at all

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    That's a solved problem, the answer is Calibre. If you want a nicer interface and some other fluff you can install calibre-web as a frontend for it. Calibre-web is very interesting if you have a Kobo e-reader because you can configure it as your store and get the books you add to calibre to magically appear on the e-reader with a nice download button next to it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I use Calibre to manage my librairy on my NAS, and COPS (https://github.com/seblucas/cops) to access it from anywhere. COPS just read the Calibre database saved on the NAS, and displays it as a self-hosted web site with all categories (authors, ratings, languages,...) and download links.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Oooo thank you for this. I already use Calibre but their web offering is imho kinda bad. This looks like it’s pretty much a drop in solution to my problem. If I throw it behind a zero trust page I can even open it up to the open internet.

    Thank you for this!

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