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Looking to remove Google play books from my life, so looking for something I can toss a bunch of stuff into and use.

Any good recommendations, with a decent UI?

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[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe Kavita is what you need. Thats what Ive been using.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nice! I hadn't come across Kavita yet. I've been using CalibeWeb for years and always found it dated and clunky. I haven't tried the demo yet, but the screenshots and feature list seem like it's Jellyfin for ebooks. I'll have to spin that up and give it a go.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

My wife likes caliber more but I find Kavita better personally.

[–] Carcel@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks clean and the screenshots look like it supports multiple libraries. Their demo site won't log in but I might spin it up this weekend and play with it. I still probably don't really have a use case for it. I'm always going to need calibre on the desktop. Ubooquity is another that I tried but still had the same lack of use. One of these days I might want to move to a web based solution but not really there right now.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Fair enough I suppose. Why would you need calibre on the desktop though?