I’ve been a Readarr user with two instances(ebooks, and audiobooks) for a long time now. But more and more often, files get unlinked in the database making it less and less useful as a way to track what books I have vs “wanted,” which is my main use case.
I’ve been trying to convert to LazyLibrarian, but boy people weren’t exaggerating when they said the configuration is unclear. Unfortunately the docs do not clear it up. Interesting I’m what y’all are doing!
Manually downloading and moving stuff around in folders, babeh!
Tho i do use this for audiobooks: https://codeberg.org/banankungen/absort
But it only works for english language audiobooks that exist on audible, so not for all use cases.
I’m gonna be honest, I wasn’t using Readarr before it was depreciated. I didn’t like how it would add every book by an author and clog up the dashboard.
I’ve always just used Prowlarr to fetch whatever book I wanted from MAM and import automatically it into Kavita.
That’s a fair POV. Readarr has never been the dashboard for me, rather a maintained list of “wanted” books.
Are you telling Prowlarr to snag individual books as you come across them?
Calibre Web Automated and Ephemera. But looking to switch to Booklore some day,just haven’t had the time.
What’s Ephemera? I haven’t heard of it before.
I’ve checked out Booklore before, but Calibre-web-automated + calibre has been working well. The feature this is missing, and the feature from Readarr I use, is a “wanted” list.
Basically a book downloader that connects to various sources, mainly Annas archive, and then hands the downloads over to CWA(or booklore). While still heavily under development it works.
Oh sick. This seems to have the request feature I’m looking for. Thank you for the recco! I’ll be checking it out.
So far that’s not working to much,but development is fast it seems
I just use calibre locally. What are the benefits of using something server-based? Can you sync books to your ereaders?
We use calibre-web-automated and have Kobo’s that we can sync with it. It’s fantastic.
As in sync position wirelessly ?? that would rock.
Yes! Its so good. I followed this guide. https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/
Both my wife and I have our own devices and they sync really well.
Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy !!
Thanks for the link, that’s so happening.
Not a problem! It’s been great, I just had to make sure I was converting the books to kepub beforehand!
That sounds awesome! How do you sync to the Kobo?
I followed this guide! https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/
Thanks!
Other than it being convenient to access your books from multiple machines, a big feature of a server based solution is for my wife to download what she wants from our library.
Calibre on Windows
Still using readarr, with rreading glasses metadata
Watching the development of chaptarr and waiting for it to be ready for a daily driver
That’s where I am! RReading glasses has been great for lookup, but Readarr regularly losing track of files and failing to manually reattach them is exceedingly annoying.
What do you make of the rreading glasses developer not endorsing chaptarr?
I looked into it briefly: They have a comparison of different forks on their GitHub, it looks like when they ran the comparison, chaptarr did pretty poorly.
They also claim chaptarr is vibe coded, which carries it’s own baggage.
https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses/blob/main/FORKS.md
I hadn’t seen this analysis. Thanks for sharing!
This is where I’m at too. Mostly just to handle download processing in a better way, most of my searches are still manual but I’m trying to be ready for the chaptarr release.
Running calibre with some stuff to auto convert to kepub and calibre web for Kobo sync.
Finally getting around to setting up a reverse proxy this weekend.
Any good ways of getting the Kobo sync working externally?
The closest I have is setting up a small single board computer as a vpn tunnel that your kobo can connect to, but I haven’t been that much in need. (Tunnel to home, then the kobo thinks it’s home and all is good)
I don’t want to punch a hole in my network that isn’t secured in some way for the kobo.
*drivarr, surely.
I have a folder where my books are saved.
