Sorry if I’m a little dense but I’ve never even considered the possibility of self hosting an ebook server/container - am I right in understanding that I can host my library of ebooks on my home server then point a client at that server so I have access to my full library without having to save the books locally on device?
Is it like offloading the processing and storage to the server and streaming the contents to device? Or more like a place to store the books and a database for metadata then once I want to read the book my device will just pull the book and all its metadata from the server to be saved locally then use my reader app of choice?
I’ll have to test some of these out as I did jailbreak my kindle and install KOReader, it does sound like something I’d be interested in learning more about when I get home.
am I right in understanding that I can host my library of ebooks on my home server then point a client at that server so I have access to my full library without having to save the books locally on device?
Some do this and some dont. I personally find ebooks to be so small that it doesnt matter, but some people use the server client to keep track of where they were at on certain books, helpwith their large collection, share with others of the family, etc…etc… And I think books with pictures such as manga, magazines, or other such take up more room so it might make sense if you have a lot of those.
I personally like having the system auto-update my device with new books and convert into nice to read formats for my custom devices. It works out really well.
Neat, makes sense thank you. I skimmed through the article and it seems like a lot of the focus is on manga, which is fine but doesn’t tackle my ebook library.
Do you personally have any recommendations for good software I should look into? I do have a server running docker if that helps.
+1 For Calibre Web. I do not have an ereader device, but I do like having my collection on the server. I do a ton of reading since I couldn’t tell you the last thing I watched on TV…it’s probably be well over a decade. But reading, that’s where it’s at for me. I’m not into fiction or novels but rather Technology, History, that kind of stuff. In the evening, I have a small NUC running Mint and a bluetooth portable screen. Works out pretty well for me.
Sorry if I’m a little dense but I’ve never even considered the possibility of self hosting an ebook server/container - am I right in understanding that I can host my library of ebooks on my home server then point a client at that server so I have access to my full library without having to save the books locally on device?
Is it like offloading the processing and storage to the server and streaming the contents to device? Or more like a place to store the books and a database for metadata then once I want to read the book my device will just pull the book and all its metadata from the server to be saved locally then use my reader app of choice?
I’ll have to test some of these out as I did jailbreak my kindle and install KOReader, it does sound like something I’d be interested in learning more about when I get home.
Some do this and some dont. I personally find ebooks to be so small that it doesnt matter, but some people use the server client to keep track of where they were at on certain books, helpwith their large collection, share with others of the family, etc…etc… And I think books with pictures such as manga, magazines, or other such take up more room so it might make sense if you have a lot of those.
I personally like having the system auto-update my device with new books and convert into nice to read formats for my custom devices. It works out really well.
Neat, makes sense thank you. I skimmed through the article and it seems like a lot of the focus is on manga, which is fine but doesn’t tackle my ebook library.
Do you personally have any recommendations for good software I should look into? I do have a server running docker if that helps.
Calibre is what I would take a look at. There is a web version that has a couple of different setups. for docker this looks interesting:
https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web
Ive also used yunohost (mostly for ease of use and backups) here: https://apps.yunohost.org/app/calibreweb
Its basically the same thing either way.
Nice.
Great, thank you so much!
+1 For Calibre Web. I do not have an ereader device, but I do like having my collection on the server. I do a ton of reading since I couldn’t tell you the last thing I watched on TV…it’s probably be well over a decade. But reading, that’s where it’s at for me. I’m not into fiction or novels but rather Technology, History, that kind of stuff. In the evening, I have a small NUC running Mint and a bluetooth portable screen. Works out pretty well for me.