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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[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

I use a combination of calibre-web-automated for metadata management and calibre-web-automated-book-downloader for downloading from Anna’s Archive. Book read progress and status is synced from my Kobo.

It works really well but you need to manually request books one at a time. The readarr feature I miss was the ability to subscribe to a GoodReads list.

[-] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Can calibre-web-automated handle the metadata look-up? I'm using it as my web frontend for serving books.

I don't mind going and finding individual books from IRC or other sources, but being able to subscribe to a centralized, "I want to read this" list is the feature I'm looking to replace at the end of the day.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I’m not sure if it automatically does the metadata lookup or if it just reads embedded metadata from the epubs I’ve downloaded. It for sure does a poor job of setting up the series name and book number fields if you read a lot of series.