What is everyone using for ebook management with Readarr's depreciation? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I've been a Readarr user with two instances(ebooks, and audiobooks) for a long time now. But more and more often, files get unlinked in the database making it less and less useful as a way to track what books I have vs "wanted," which is my main use case.

I've been trying to convert to LazyLibrarian, but boy people weren't exaggerating when they said the configuration is unclear. Unfortunately the docs do not clear it up. Interesting I'm what y'all are doing!

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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Still using readarr, with rreading glasses metadata

Watching the development of chaptarr and waiting for it to be ready for a daily driver

[-] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

*drivarr, surely.

[-] spudsrus@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

This is where I'm at too. Mostly just to handle download processing in a better way, most of my searches are still manual but I'm trying to be ready for the chaptarr release.

Running calibre with some stuff to auto convert to kepub and calibre web for Kobo sync.

Finally getting around to setting up a reverse proxy this weekend.

Any good ways of getting the Kobo sync working externally?

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

The closest I have is setting up a small single board computer as a vpn tunnel that your kobo can connect to, but I haven't been that much in need. (Tunnel to home, then the kobo thinks it's home and all is good)

I don't want to punch a hole in my network that isn't secured in some way for the kobo.

[-] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

That's where I am! RReading glasses has been great for lookup, but Readarr regularly losing track of files and failing to manually reattach them is exceedingly annoying.

What do you make of the rreading glasses developer not endorsing chaptarr?

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

I looked into it briefly: They have a comparison of different forks on their GitHub, it looks like when they ran the comparison, chaptarr did pretty poorly.

They also claim chaptarr is vibe coded, which carries it's own baggage.

https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses/blob/main/FORKS.md