If it wasn’t for the fact that I wanted to share my library with someone else, I would likely stick with my system for quite some time still. But I need it to be browseable for them.

Hm, I never considered Audiobookshelf for e-books - I already have it running for audiobooks. I should check that out!

Good to know - I will keep my eyes peeled!

Grimmory looks sweet, but with the recent drama and the apparent opt-out (but not really) telemetry, the massive amount of AI-generated code etc. I will want to let the age a little before I install that on my server.

ETA: Well, I toured the Calibre-Web settings again, and now I can upload books and covers. Must have been a little tired on my first attempt. Still couldn’t get the conversion to work properly - I only have the option of going from EPUB -> KEPUB (whatever that is). I typically prefer reading PDF on my current reader, and I have users who need .azw3 for their jailbroken Kindle device. I guess the paths to the conversion tools aren’t properly configured.

ETA2: Now I got the conversion to work as well. Seems like I will be able to use it with Calibre-Web only as well. Nice!

Hm, I’m using lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre-web:latest, which is version 0.6.26 (5a1f3d8eec42d03228b1e5dec9bc750ca10bbc94 - 2026-02-06T20:40:07+01:00). Looked again to see if I could find a way to do it, but no.

How do you upload books directly using Calibre-Web? And do you not have Calibre running behind at all, just the original database?

An other shortcoming of Calibre-Web seems to be that I am unable to convert books from the UI (that is thankfully very easy to do in Calibre). I added some Docker mods that I thought would allow me to do this, but I have at least not found a way.

Nice to know it works with Kobo - I don’t have one, but if my current reader stops working I am likely to get one of those.

You are in a lemmy instance talking about it, which is why the people reading a post about a version update to it, know what it is.

Not to mention that this post is specifically in the Home Assistant-community, which describes the FOSS, local control and privacy aspects of it in the community description.

Well obviously I did have no idea what home assistant was.

Yes, this was obvious, but it didn’t keep you from ranting as if you did.

Can we also take a moment to acknowledge how utterly unhinged this part is?

“This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!”

Their web installer makes degoogling accessible to everyone.

With the right hardware

Oh boy, I can see I really need to get my dashboard game together.