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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    11 months ago

    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)

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        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.