Hi fellow hosters! I really did not know where to ask this question - and i thought you lot are pretty similar to me. If you can think of somewhere else to post this, please let me know!

I am looking for a solution to be able to host my own books (something like calibre i guess), that i can easily push them to a yet-to-be-purchased eReader.

Firstly - What eReader are you using that allows you to add any number of book sources to? i would also like to include my local library subscription, as well as locally hosted and purchased ones.

Secondly - Any hints on hosting a book collection. (Readarr v calibre, etc), where you get books from, removing DRM from eBooks that you buy, that sort of stuff.

thanks!

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    I use FBReader on a couple of Android 8" tablets and my phone, it'll connect to a calibre library and stores/syncs progress on Gdrive or Dropbox (wish that was more open). But its a great reader app.

    I docker calibre/calibre-web/openbooks as follows and pull my books from usenet where someone has more than likely broken the DRM. I'm just going to say, I own every book I read on paper or Kindle, I just can't stand paper books and there's no way to convince these publishing co's to send me the ebook for the physical book.

    When you use this, go into the Calibre app and set up the auto-import to the Data volume that is shared by the containers. Then when you download a book, you can just press cancel to save, as the book will be autoimpored from the temp folder in Openbooks by Calibre and deleted from the Data volume.

    version: "2.1"
    services:
      calibre:
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:latest
        container_name: calibre
        environment:
          - PUID=0
          - PGID=0
          - TZ=America/Denver
        security_opt:
          - seccomp=unconfined
        volumes:
          - ./data:/config
        ports:
          - 7080:8080
          - 7081:8081
        restart: unless-stopped
        labels:
          - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
    
      calibre-web:
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre-web:latest
        container_name: calibre-web
        environment:
          - PUID=0
          - PGID=0
          - TZ=America/Denver
          - DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-calibre #optional
        volumes:
          - ./data/web-config:/config
          - ./data/:/books
    #      - ./data/Calibre\ Library:/books
        ports:
          - 7083:8083
        restart: unless-stopped
        labels:
          - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
    
      openbooks:
        ports:
          - 7082:80
        volumes:
          - './data/:/books'
        restart: unless-stopped
        container_name: OpenBooks
    #    command: --persist
        command: --name "InsertSomeAliasHere" --persist
        environment:
          - BASE_PATH=/
        image: evanbuss/openbooks:latest
        labels:
          - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true