What’s your ebook download automation pipeline? And what do you use for library management — calibre, calibre-web, something else?
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I use Audiobookshelf as the app support is great (allows downloading offline versions and progress syncs when you reconnect to internet). This works amazingly well with my Boox Palma 2 since it runs android.
I don’t download a ton of books, so I just have some simple Python scripts for organizing the content.
I use Calibre but I don’t have any automated, download, pipeline. I just upload the books as I buy them. I guess I’m boring and vanilla like that. LOL
Mostly pandoc (for epub to text) and a few stupid python scripts. I’m a luddite and prefer reading text files. I don’t use any particular collection management beyond filenames and grep.
To something like Markdown, or do you just throw away formatting?
Epub is html with some crap wrapping it. Converting it to text follows the html formatting, like using the lynx browser.
Download books from libgen, Anna’s archive, torrents. Move (sftp) to a watched folder on my pi4 that’s running calibre and then download from server using moon reader.
I recently switched from manual downloads to Shelfmark, and I highly recommend it, makes downloading books so much easier, especially from Anna’s Archive.
I looked into Moon+ Reader, and I would recommend readest instdead.
Wow, shelfmark looks really cool. I like the customisation moon+ reader offers for the UI, but find the progress sharing a little lacking, so will take a look at readers, thanks.
Sorry for recommending readest, the webdav feature is locked behind paywall
I have kavita and audiobookshelf running as containers on my NAS. I don’t have a good automation for getting books there since I usually need to remove DRM, which is a bit manual with calibre. Kavita is then coupled to my ereader (tolino) running koreader.
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Calibre Web Automated. I have Kobo integration enabled, so when I add an ebook to the “sync” folder, it appears on my Kobo. pretty nice system.
It’s not fully automated, but I use Shelfmark -> Grimmory for my ebooks. Works quite nicely with the ingestion/metadata lookup in Grimmory.
thanks a lot!
Grimmory is new to me, is it something like calibre for managing metadata?
Yup, I transferred from Calibre and Calibre-Web to Grimmory end of last year. It’s a webapp based solution with built in look ups for GoodReads, Hardcover, and other services. Overall pretty nice!
