Is anyone selfhosting kavita?

elfio@sh.itjust.works to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 23 points –

I'm giving it a try after failing to set something simple for a book collection (mostly epub). Interested in knowing other people take on this tool.

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I use it for my comics, but I didn’t care for the file/folder structure it required for books, so I’m using audiobookshelf for my ebooks as well as my audiobooks.

Does it require a particular folder structure? That might explain why I have trouble finding books sometimes. Kavita knows about them but search can't always find them.

Both Kavita and Audiobookshelf require a particular folder structure. Since Kavita is comics first, the folder structure for ebooks isn’t quite as intuitive, and I didn’t care for it.

I had Audiobookshelf up and running well before I spun up Kavita, so I was already used to that folder structure, and since it’s designed around books anyway, to me it makes more sense.

Regardless, as long as you use the proper folder structure for the service you land on, you should be good to go.

The other reason I went with Audiobookshelf is that to me, it made much more sense to have all of my audiobooks and ebooks under the same service. (Albeit in different libraries)

Oh! I didn't know audiobookshelf could do ebooks. It doesn't look like it has an OPDS server which is my primary use case.

Audiobookshelf doesn’t support OPDS, and if that’s your use case, you’re probably better off with Kavita.

I’m okay with it because I can fire up the web browser on my pocketbook ereader and download the books. It’s clunky but it works well enough for me.

I haven’t implemented it yet, but audiobookshelf does support sending ebooks to devices via email. I just haven’t bothered to get a mail server up and running for it.

I use kavita and tried audiobookshelf a bit after and all kavita requires is a specific folder of "Last, First" for authors and can toss any jpgs or epubs in those folders and that's how I have mine structured. I didn't have any structure setup before so adopting this one made sense to me.