Minimal OPDS server?

  • No calibre database integration
  • No web ui
  • No desktop app
    Just the server, that scans the specified directory for books, displays them in the feed and saves progress.
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8 Comments

Certainly_No_Brit@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

bookshelf looks like something you'd like. It doesn't seem to automatically index the files, but it does work without Calibre and has no UI. It only supports Epub though.

I don't know if it saves progress and I can't test it right now.

Unsafe@discuss.online · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It actually has a ui. But it looks minimal enough. I'll try it.

kanzalibrary@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

can you tell me your testing with bookshelf? really curious with the ui and your opinion on it.

Unsafe@discuss.online · 2 pts · 2y

It doesn't support OPDS-PSE, which is the most common way of tracking progress.

kxzaon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
uzay@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I'm not aware that progress saving is a default feature of OPDS. There is some work being done in that direction, but I don't know of any server/app combinations that do that for ebooks. Apart from that, I'm relatively happy with kavita. It comes with a web UI though.

Unsafe@discuss.online · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Kavita, same as Komga requires too much RAM.

Komga can track ebook reading progress, by converting them to images.

uzay@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 2y

That sounds like a super inconvenient way of doing it