https://lemmy.ml/u/bilbaobun posted on Mar 29, 2026 20:25
Looks for something like calibre web but not terrible
Looks for something like calibre web but not terrible
Is there something specific you don’t like about Calibre Web? Might help pinpoint the recommendations.
Janky and doesn’t look nice
Well, I’m not sure what ‘janky’ encompasses for you but when you add themepark, it looks much better.
Look into Grimmory, the replacement for booklore. Apparently it’s the same maintainers just a fork since the creator of booklore closed it down (no major changes yet, just housekeeping). I’m happy with it.
Did you try Calibre Web or Calibre Web Automated
Maybe CWA is what you’re looking for?
Calibre Web Automated is a completely different project. I am liking it so far.
Some people have also suggested Kavita.
I have found Kavita to be excellent.
Plus one for Kavita. Only slight bump is that it wants books to be in series because it’s quite manga focused.
I’ve been self-hosting BookLore via a Docker container and I’m very happy with it.
I’m running Kavita. It’s been good and tracks your reading progress. The catch is that there’s no upload, you have to put your files on the disk and then rescan
It was the UI he didn’t like so it’s not going to be much different.
The real MVP!
I’ve tried the a number of the ones being mentioned, but the best for me has been Audio bookshelf . It has a good mobile app, allows collections, tries to pull Metadata, offline reading for the apps, etc.
Does it support epub?
…..aww shucks
Basic ebook support and ereader (epub, pdf, cbr, cbz) + send to device (i.e. Kindle)
Biggest issue is the folder/book structure is very opinionated and isn’t the easiest to work with.
Personally, I found Kavita and Grimmory far too complex for my use and also very resources hungry. At the end CWA is just perfect for me. Still have to configure my kobo e-reader to use it directly and this will for sure be a game changer from my current solution which consist in converting epub to kepub with kepubify and then put it on a local webserver that I open through kobo web browser.
BookLore https://github.com/mvanhorn/booklore/
Killer feature for me was ability to upload books via web.