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I'm giving it a try after failing to set something simple for a book collection (mostly epub). Interested in knowing other people take on this tool.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Have you tried calibre-web? Kavita one seems to be easier to run

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I'll say that I've run both Kavita and Calibre+Calibre-Web. I've stuck with running Calibreand Calibre Web together. Kavita was great but since I read on kindle and Kavita-email never worked for me I went back to Calibre. I also prefer calibre since it lets me convert files and change the cover images.

Personally I had more issues getting kavita to work the way I wanted than I did with calibre.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I have used both, personally I prefer kavita as it runs faster.

However kavita needs to create user accounts as well as it is auto categorizing books and comics which personally I hate, especially for my cybersecurity books.