Thinking about self-hosting an ebook library? Here are the open source software you can consider.

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    17 hours ago

    Wait you use it also for epub/pdf? How does that work, can you connect a client and grab it from there? Can you have both an audiobook and text version of the same book?

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      15 hours ago

      You can read using the web client or dedicated apps (android and ios). I feel like the clients work just as good if not better than similar software.

      I haven’t tested how it handles two versions (audio/ebook) of the same book, but I have ebooks and audio books and it works well for me.

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        8 hours ago

        That’s really cool. After I replied I also remembered you can have multiple libraries in audiobookshelf so even if side-by-side doesn’t work it shouldn’t be an issue.

        Unfortunately I love my Readest reading app too much to switch away but it’s nevertheless good to know for other family members.