In addition to Calibre-Web there is also Calibre Web Automated.
jellyfin has the option to host your books, and with the OPDS plugin you can pull books directly off the server with compatible readers (koreader, moon+, etc), no need to copy things around manually.
Aren’t ebooks like…. Miniscule, file-size wise? Like smaller than mp3s?
I have tried every possible set up, I’ve got to say that the best one so far for me is sychthing + Koreader: dead simple, no databases, synchs annotations and highlights as well, books are simply epub files + metadata.
Aka no dealing with exports, database corruption or stuff like that.
I just set this up last week to finally organize and dedrm my amazon eBook library I downloaded before they disabled that. Working great so far.
Yeah, it was easy to set up the Jellyfin plugin.
What’s the benefit of this over ftp?
Some can be very big if they include pictures. (like cookbooks)
However, yes…. if it’s just say a fiction book with no pictures, they are kilobytes in size.
FYI, you can still dedrm Amazon books. Even ones you buy today.
I do something similar. Synching and readera. The books are not that big, so I just keep them all downloaded. I use nextcloud for my audiobook library, but the android app is kinda fiddly. Id.love something simpler that worked like a Google drive so I could browse the files, and only download the ones I want. But of course, hosted on my own computer.
I personally use Calibre+Calibre-web.
It’s configured as a proxy for the Kobo store, the default store for my e-reader.
That means that when I click the sync button on my Kobo, it downloads anything hosted on my calibre-web server, while still keeping the ability to browse the Kobo store.
Most people don’t know how to use ftp anymore. It’s a pretty limited protocol (and requires 2 open ports to function). It’s hard to integrate with good modern auth solutions. Probably more, that’s off the top of my head.
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Thank you I appreciate the info I mentally already shifted to not using amazon for ebooks anymore but there are occasional sales I’ll have to get this new method setup soon.
Most of my ebooks are large as they are comics. You also have EPUB3 ebooks now, which can contain images and audio in them too (think combined ebook + audiobook). So they can get pretty large.
Oooo, I didn’t know that. That’s fancy