Calibre is powerful and mature
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I use Komga, and for my tablet use Tachiyomi + komga plugin (there's also a plug-in for kavita), I find it's a better experience than using an OPDS reader
For ebooks, my wife uses caliber and I use Kavita. No real reason to use one over the other I dont think. I like them both although Kavita has a slightly better reader for my liking. Both are a snap to self host and add books to.
+1 for Kavita, though I don't use it for reading. I use OPDS in Kavita to read books on my phone (using MoonReader+ on Android) and share books with family.
Ill have to try moonreader or something similar. I tried using tachiyomi but it always fails to load. I mainly only use it on desktop for my ttrpg pdfs though so then ill just use kavitas reader
That's odd that it won't work with Tachiyomi for you. I followed the Kavita guide to connect it to Tachiyomi and it works fine for me.
The source is there, but none of my files load. To be fair, It could just be a me thing and doesn't really matter? I haven't tried it with any epub files or anything like that.
Odd... What are the files formatted as? All of mine are cbz's.
Right now all Pdfs since theyre all ttrpg books. I should grab some of my wifes epubs and throw em in, see how they load
Guessing from the local manga guide pdfs wont work, but it looks like epubs should. I've never tried those though... It may only read the images from the epub, if there are any.
I set up calibre-web on my home server but didn't use it for very long. I've got my books separated into fiction, nonfiction and technical libraries and calibre-web could only handle one library database. I would have had to run multiple instances to get the different libraries served. I also still had a need to use calibre on my desktop so it was necessary to reimport the database from my desktop into calibre-web to keep things in sync. If you're going to manage everything in the web interface it might work for you. It was just kind of unnecessary for my needs.