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eReaders for Selfhosted book collections
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this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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Bouncing off of this, what e-book server exists that a clients sync progress back to the server (i.e. Amazon's whispersync)?
I primarily read on one device, but occasionally I pull up my phone when I don't have my e-reader and it's really handy to have to progress always up to date.
that would be good to know!
Ubooquity does this if you use the web reader across multiple devices, not sure about any third party apps or e-reader integration though.
As there are currently bo other suggestions: I know that Audiobookshelf has support for non-audio books as well and it will sync progress. I have not used this functionality and don’t know how good it works for ebooks.
I use Kavita for my comic book collection, and recently added some books into it as well. Syncs well across devices. I don't really read books as I have so much time to listen to them instead but I can't see why it wouldn't work for someone who does.
I understand that Kavita only offers reading through a web interface, so it would make sense that reading progress is synchronized since you are always reading directly from the server.
What I'm referring to is a client and server that synchronizes offline reading progress (When a connection can be made), especially one that works on an e-reader device.
Commenting to come back to this. Also interested!