It seems like thre are really only a couple of options, and I haven’t found many review or examples that show enough detail to compare them.
Jellyfin has a bookshelf plugin that seems to be able to handle it. Audiobooks look to be accessed through the main client app, and ebooks through a companion app like JellyBook, which also claims to handle audiobooks.
On the other hand, there is Audiobookshelf, which specializes in audiobooks, but also claims to host ebooks. It has a number of client apps, but none that I found mention eBook reading.
I’ve found a couple of other solutions that seem more specialized. Maybe one of those?
I want to be able to read and listen on an Android device, preferably with a native app. I have a few comics, but mostly interested in books and audiobooks. I already have a Jellyfin server setup.
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I just learned about it recently, and it looks really awesome. It does ebooks, audio, and both. It’s main feature is that you can read along with the audio, and it will highlight sentences as the audio goes.
Looks very cool! I don’t know that I have the resources for it on my little homelab but good to keep it in mind in the future.
For me, AudioBookShelf is the clear standout for audio books, and I ended up going with Kavita for ebooks.
Can I ask what stands out with Kavita that audiobookshelf lacks?
Audiobookshelf is insanely good. It’s almost a perfect application. Seemingly it does ebooks too, but I haven’t used that yet.
Since they’re different applications entirely and you wouldn’t use the same client for each, I use Calibre as a kasmweb docker image for ebooks and enable OPDS for it to hook up with my FBreader app. Audiobooks are done with Audiobookshelf and outputs an RSS feed for Antennapod subscription.
I currently use antenna pod for listening to podcasts and I love it. Am I understanding correctly that you also use it for audiobooks? Does show each chapter as a separate episode or how does that work?
https://www.audiobookshelf.org/guides/rss_feeds/
So set the books up in a collection, and add each book. RSS the collection and each book shows up as an episode. I wouldn’t want chapters as episodes, that would be annoying usually.
Agreed, these are two different things meant for two different purposes. At this point nothing beats audiobookshelf
+1 for audiobookshelf
I use it for audiobooks and podcasts.
Does it support ebooks? Never known.
Anyway I wouldn’t use it for ebooks, better to use a dedicated reader. Even if they seems to be the same stuff (books) they really are not as one is pure audio and other pure text. Way different way to use them that I think no good reader supports both formats at once in a satisfactory way.
Audiobookshelf for sure. It handles audiobooks fabulously, and it also does handle ebooks.
I use it to manage my eBook library, but not as the reader. You can set up a “send to ereader” option to email the ebooks to your reader of choice. So I just shoot them off to my pocketbook ereader when I want to read one.
I have used audiobook shelf to read a couple of PDF files. Seemed to work fine. I mostly use it for audio books.
Audiobookshelf for audiobooks, calibre-web for ebooks. Don’t try to get it to get one thing that does both well, you’re better off with two solutions that are both better at their respective thing.
I’ve read some places that Calibre can be finicky. Have you had to troubleshoot any issues with your deployment?
Calibre is finicky (and I hate the current docker deployment option), but I Calibre-Web** is not, and a totally different project. It’s worth taking a look.
I think specific solutions for each type of content would be better in the long term if you have a lot of stuff to host, and management/organization will be better since they are catered to whatever the content type is.
Others have already said it, Audiobookshelf is a good one. For EBooks though, I would highly recommend Calibre Content server. Calibre is pretty much the defacto open source EBook manager out there, a lot of features and abilities specific to ereaders and ebooks of all formats.
There is little better for ebooks than Calibre, and Calibre Web if you’re into web apps.
For the audio book discussion, OP should use the “search” function, because there was a robust discussion about this in @selfhosted@lemmy.world within the past two months.
I think youre linking to a user instead of a channel but could be wrong. When i tried to access in Voyager it told me the user didnt exist.
Oh. Yeah, probably. I can never remember how Lemmy does communities; with a bang, maybe?
I wish the OSS communities would get together and pick a lane. Matrix uses #room:server, Lemmy does !community@server; does Mastodon use the same as Lemmy?
Standards, people. Let’s have some standards. Shame on whoever designed their protocol second.
Sounds like Jellfyfin+Jellybook is your winner then. The server portion of audiobook or ebook hosting isn’t going to be giving you any game changing features. They serve files.
The client you use is going to make or break your experience here, so just go with the easiest setup on the server side, and then run through some clients to see what works best.
