Narratarr finds free audiobooks, fetches them through your download stack, and plays them back in the browser, so a book goes from curiosity to chapter one in a single click. Discovery starts with more than 30,000 legal titles from LibriVox and Old-Time Radio, browsable by genre, popularity, language, and format. Search forgives your spelling: type a mangled author name and the right books still surface, ranked by how well they match. Every title shows its runtime, format, size, and description before you commit, and one click queues the download, files it under Author and Title with cover art attached, and tracks progress live on the Activity page. Playback needs no second app. The built-in player handles chapters, including markers buried inside m4b files, plays from three-quarter speed to triple speed, and offers a sleep timer that can stop at the chapter boundary. Your place is kept per listener, so a household can share one library without losing anyone's bookmark. Follow authors and series on the Wanted list and new releases arrive on their own; notifications land in ntfy, Gotify, Discord, or any webhook when downloads start and finish. Ebooks ride along too, readable as EPUBs in the same interface. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

When household readers want a single web portal to search, request, and deliver ebooks and audiobooks without juggling separate indexers or download clients, Shelfmark unifies the entire acquisition pipeline in one self-hosted hub. Universal search mode queries Hardcover, Open Library, and Google Books for rich cover art, series order, and edition metadata before aggregating matching releases across every configured source. Direct search mode queries individual providers immediately for rapid title lookups. You can connect Prowlarr torrent and Usenet indexers, direct web download mirrors, IRC book channels, and Soulseek peers through slskd inside one unified interface. Multi-user accounts support granular request policies where family members or friends submit book or release requests for admin approval, complete with per-user language preferences and custom delivery targets. Completed downloads automatically rename and route files into Calibre, Calibre-Web, Grimmory, BookLore, or Audiobookshelf watch folders, or dispatch directly to e-readers over SMTP email. Built-in authentication supports local credentials, reverse proxy headers, OpenID Connect single sign-on, and existing Calibre-Web user databases. Optional WireGuard VPN with a fail-closed kill switch and Tor routing keep external indexer queries private. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

BookLore centralizes personal electronic book, audiobook, and comic collections into an organized private media server equipped with automated metadata scrapers and e-reader synchronization. Users can drop EPUB, PDF, CBZ, and MOBI files into a watched BookDrop directory to trigger automated format parsing, background cover retrieval, and staged queue imports. Integrated metadata scrapers query Google Books, Open Library, Goodreads, and Amazon to automatically fill synopsis summaries, author records, publishing dates, and review scores. Dynamic Magic Shelves categorize volumes through custom rule-based filters, author collections, and full-text search indexes across your complete literature catalog. The browser-based reader renders documents with adjustable typography, night modes, audio playback controls, text annotations, and persistent bookmarking. Hardware e-readers and mobile devices connect through native Kobo Store emulation APIs, bidirectional KOReader progress synchronization, and OPDS catalog feeds. Multi-tenant permissions provide each household member with private reading statistics, personalized shelves, email book delivery, and direct send-to-Kindle dispatch. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU AGPLv3 licensed.

One library for the books you read and the books you listen to: Chaptarr manages audiobooks and eBooks side by side, so the same title can live on your server as a chaptered M4B and an EPUB without two separate apps fighting over it. It knows the difference between editions and narrators, which means a dramatized production, an unabridged reading, and the print text can coexist as first-class versions of one work. Multi-part releases and multi-file recordings are handled as single books, and MP3 audiobooks can be converted into one chaptered M4B with chapters preserved or inserted where they are missing. Separate root folders keep audiobooks and eBooks apart, or place eBooks alongside their audio twins; either way, matching uses file tags, folder names, and release metadata to attach files to the right book automatically. Series are organized for you, metadata profiles control which languages belong in your library, and flexible renaming tokens produce filenames that read the same way a human would shelve them. Custom quality profiles per library drive automatic upgrades when a better release appears, and the standard download clients and indexer integrations from the *arr family plug straight in. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Instead of manually hunting through indexers and stitching chapter files together, ReadMeABook automates the entire audiobook request, download, and M4B library organization pipeline for Audiobookshelf and Plex. Users search an Audible-backed catalog by title, author, narrator, or series, inspect full book summaries with runtime and publisher metadata, and submit one-click requests from a clean browser portal. Once approved, the engine queries Prowlarr across torrent and Usenet indexers, dispatches releases to qBittorrent or SABnzbd, and monitors download progress until completion. Multi-file MP3 downloads merge automatically into a single chapterized M4B audiobook via FFmpeg, complete with embedded cover art, narrator tags, and series ordering metadata before triggering a media server library scan. Not sure what to listen to next? BookDate pairs OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or local LLM endpoints with a swipeable card deck that learns your reading tastes and queues new titles with a single swipe right. Optional e-book sidecar fetching grabs companion EPUB or PDF files alongside audio releases, while multi-user approval queues, OIDC single sign-on, Goodreads shelf syncing, and Discord, Pushover, Apprise, or ntfy notifications keep household libraries running smoothly. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

A folder of loose audiobook chapters goes in; a single, perfectly tagged m4b library comes out. Bragibooks is the operations board for that transformation: you select a batch of audiobook folders from your server, and it searches AudiobookDB to match each one with the right title, author, narrator, and release, with a custom search on hand when the first match is wrong. Confirmed books enter a processing queue where m4b-merge merges split mp3, m4a, and m4b parts, converts formats, strips stale metadata, and writes clean, consistently tagged files while you watch the live job output in your browser. Saved output profiles let you route different batches to different directories or path formats, and the books library keeps every finished title with its metadata, files, and processing history a click away. The whole thing runs as one container with the interface built in, a SQLite database on a mounted config volume, and access restricted to your local network by default, with an optional API key for external tools. Audiobook collectors use it to tame download folders before importing into their player of choice, and hoarders of split-chapter rips finally get uniform Chapter 01 style files. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Consolidate your entire digital library into a self-hosted reading sanctuary with BookOrbit, an open-source media platform that organizes ebooks, audiobooks, comic archives, and research PDFs within a personal private cloud. Readers can enjoy multi-format media directly through responsive browser readers that support EPUB, CBZ, and M4B formats without external browser extensions. The platform synchronizes reading bookmarks, highlights, and completion statuses across web interfaces, Kobo ereaders, and KOReader devices. An automated metadata enrichment engine queries fourteen upstream bibliographic indexes, downloading cover artwork, chapter breakdowns, author biographies, and series taxonomies. The staging workspace allows librarians to inspect incoming files, review suggested metadata revisions, and embed updated tags directly into physical storage archives before shelving. Custom reading dashboards track annual book goals, calculate daily streaks, and plot reading habit radar charts. Multi-user configurations support distinct per-user collections, granular content permissions, and single sign-on authentication through OpenID Connect providers. Power users can export private OPDS feeds to external mobile reading applications or push books directly to connected Kindle hardware. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU AGPL v3.0 licensed.

ANX Calibre Manager puts your Calibre library in your pocket, with a phone-friendly interface for the collection that used to require sitting down at the big machine. Browse and search the whole library from the sofa, open a book in the browser previewer, and have it read aloud when your eyes are done for the day. Any EPUB can become a proper audiobook with chapter markers, playable right in the app with your listening position saved, and ready for dedicated audiobook servers too. Your e-reader stays in the loop: reading progress and time sync back from KOReader devices, books push straight to Anx-reader folders, and sending to Kindle quietly converts to the right format first when the book you have is not the format Kindle wants. Every account gets its own WebDAV library for compatible readers, invite codes keep registration to people you actually know, and roles decide who may edit whose books. Reading statistics build themselves into a year heatmap with your current and finished lists, shareable or private as you choose, and you can even ask a book questions and get answers drawn from its pages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Stop wrestling with dead scrapers and scattered reading folders by orchestrating your digital library through Bindery, an automated ebook and audiobook management platform that tracks favorite authors, monitors release schedules, coordinates indexer searches, and organizes media collections. Users can configure monitoring profiles to automatically track author bibliographies across OpenLibrary, Google Books, and Hardcover without fear of dead endpoints breaking their library. Dual-format tracking allows each book entry to hold separate digital ebook and multi-part audiobook files in distinct directory roots. The integrated search engine evaluates Newznab and Torznab indexers in parallel, scoring releases by edition tags, audio bitrate, narrator names, and release year to grab the highest quality versions. Download jobs pass seamlessly to background clients like SABnzbd, NZBGet, Transmission, or Deluge, moving completed files into custom library folder structures with hardlinks. An interactive release calendar highlights upcoming publications, while the manual metadata editor locks custom titles, genres, and series ordering against upstream refreshes. Readers can browse curated collections directly through the built-in OPDS feed on mobile reading apps or export organized media straight into Calibre and Audiobookshelf. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Consolidate fragmented collections of digital novels, graphic novels, manga, and audiobooks into Grimmory, an open-source media library server that combines automated file sorting with rich in-browser reading environments. The server indexes diverse media formats including EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, PDF, CBZ, CBR, CB7, M4B, and MP3 files across isolated storage directories. Readers explore literature through specialized browser viewports that provide customizable typography, CFI highlight annotations, two-page comic spreads with right-to-left manga modes, and chapter-based audiobook playback with sleep timers. Automated BookDrop watch folders ingest incoming files, retrieving book covers, author biographies, and community ratings from Google Books, Open Library, and Amazon APIs. Dynamic Magic Shelves organize catalogs automatically using nested boolean rule trees that filter books by page counts, genres, release dates, or narrator identities without server reload overhead. External e-readers access media catalogs through standard OPDS feeds or native Kobo and KOReader synchronization endpoints that match documents by binary content hashes. Built-in email delivery sends formatted books directly to Kindle devices with a single click, while OpenID Connect authentication enforces granular multi-user library permissions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU AGPLv3 licensed.

Turn any chaotic digital book archive into an autonomous, self-organizing reading portal using Calibre-Web Automated, a digital library manager featuring hands-free format conversions, metadata fetching, and e-reader synchronization. Readers can drop raw ebook files into the automated intake directory and watch the system instantly convert between twenty-eight distinct file types, repair malformed EPUB internal markup, and fetch enriched metadata from Hardcover, Kobo, and ISBN databases. The responsive web reader lets you browse collections, read directly in any desktop or mobile browser, and organize titles into dynamic rules-based Magic Shelves that update automatically. Built-in KOReader sync harmonizes reading progress and bookmarks across mobile devices and e-ink readers, while native OPDS feeds connect seamlessly to your favorite external reader applications. Administrative tools empower you to run hybrid SQL and fuzzy duplicate detection scans, perform batch metadata editing across entire series, enforce cover art changes directly into source files, and auto-dispatch newly ingested books to Kindle or Kobo devices via scheduled email delivery. Granular multi-user controls allow administrators to assign folder permissions, restrict downloads, enforce dark mode themes, and authenticate readers securely through OAuth and OpenID Connect identity providers. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU General Public License v3.0 licensed.

With over 17,700 GitHub stars and continuous development since 2015, Calibre-Web has become the definitive self-hosted digital library solution for book enthusiasts who want beautiful web access to their Calibre collections. The responsive Bootstrap 3 interface delivers instant browsing, searching, and filtering across titles, authors, tags, series, book formats, and languages, with custom shelves for organizing personal reading collections. In-browser reading supports EPUB, PDF, TXT, CBR, CBT, CBZ, and DJVU formats with a configurable EPUB reader featuring multiple themes and page location tracking, while one-click email delivery sends books directly to Kindle, Kobo, and other E-Readers without leaving the interface. Native Kobo sync lets Kobo device owners synchronize their entire Calibre library wirelessly, maintaining reading progress and bookmarks across devices. Metadata management includes editing capabilities with automatic metadata downloading from Google Books, Amazon, and other configurable sources, plus eBook format conversion through Calibre binaries for on-the-fly EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, and PDF conversion. User management provides fine-grained per-user permissions controlling download access, upload rights, editing capabilities, and content visibility based on categories or Custom Column values. Authentication supports local accounts, LDAP directory integration, Google and GitHub OAuth, proxy authentication, and Magic Link login for easy E-Reader access. The OPDS catalog feed enables any compliant E-Reader app to browse and download from the library. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Instead of handing your reading history to a retail platform and letting an algorithm decide what you read next, BookWyrm lets a self-hosted community of readers make the recommendations. Shelve every book as to-read, currently reading, stopped, or finished, record start and finish dates with progress updates along the way, and set an annual reading goal to keep the habit honest. Rate and review finished books, drop a comment while you are mid-chapter, or save a quotation worth keeping, and all of it can appear on the book page alongside reviews aggregated from other connected instances. Follow friends to see their shelves fill up, join a group to build a shared reading list, or create your own list and choose whether it stays closed, accepts suggestions for approval, opens to everyone, or belongs to the group. Posts, shelves, and lists each carry their own privacy level, public, unlisted, followers-only, or private, and you can approve followers by hand before they see anything. Because instances federate over ActivityPub, your readers can follow you from another BookWyrm community or straight from Mastodon, and book metadata is shared between servers so small instances do not catalog alone. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Anti-Capitalist Software License licensed.

Your want-to-read shelf and your audiobook library finally talk to each other, so the next book you finish can trigger the hunt for the one after it. Dewarr syncs Goodreads shelves, CSV exports, custom public lists, and Hardcover lists, then watches them for new additions worth listening to. Connect Audiobookshelf or Grimmory and it knows what you already own, importing finished downloads into verified library folders instead of leaving files stranded in a downloads directory. Follow authors and series to catch future releases, with back-catalog review, filters, and exclusions before anything is grabbed, including release-day acquisition for titles you are waiting on. When you approve auto-download, it searches MyAnonamouse, Prowlarr, and AudiobookBay, ranks sources by your format, size, and seed preferences, and hands transfers to qBittorrent. Multi-file MP3 releases come back as one chapterized M4B, a chapter per file, ready for your player. The discovery page personalizes shelves with followed lists, award collections, trending books, and new releases. Household members get individual accounts, reading lists, and permissions, with sign-in through OpenID Connect providers or Plex. Notifications for grabs, imports, and digests go out over Discord, ntfy, Apprise, or plain webhooks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Folivox turns an ebook sitting on your server into a finished audiobook read aloud in a voice you choose, cloned from a short sample, or performed by a whole cast of characters. Drop in an FB2, EPUB, DOCX, PDF, or TXT file and the studio detects the book language, restores chapters, poems, and epigraphs, cleans page furniture away, and spells numbers, dates, money, and abbreviations out in full for nine fully supported languages. Narration runs locally through CosyVoice 3 or the multi-speaker Fish Audio Drama 3, which can give each character their own voice like a radio play, or through ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Gemini, or Cartesia with your own key after a cost estimate you approve. A markup editor finds the dialogue, assigns lines to speakers, and lets you fix mistakes and listen before committing to a ten-hour render. Every fragment is listened back to with Whisper and re-read until the best take survives, while a crash-safe journal means a stopped render resumes where it left off and edited chapters redo only what changed. The finished book arrives as one chaptered M4B with cover and metadata, or one MP3 per chapter, loudness-normalised and ready for any player. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

With OpenReader, any EPUB, PDF, Word document, Markdown file, or plain text book transforms into an interactive reading workspace paired with natural text-to-speech playback and multi-chapter audiobook export. Documents render natively in their original page layout rather than flattening into plain text, using layout-aware block detection and cross-page stitching so multi-column academic papers, technical manuals, and textbooks flow in the right reading order while skipping headers and footnotes. As narration plays, word-level forced alignment highlights each spoken word directly on the page in real time, and progressive background generation starts audio playback on the first segment while synthesizing upcoming pages ahead of your cursor. Readers can connect local speech engines such as Kokoro, KittenTTS, and Orpheus or cloud voice providers, select language-aware voices for multilingual books, adjust playback speed, and switch among thirteen light and dark reading themes. Cached audio segments persist across seeks and browser reloads, allowing the background worker to assemble complete M4B or MP3 audiobooks for offline listening on mobile devices while syncing reading progress, queues, and library imports across sessions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Tome is a self-hosted ebook library that knows how you read, not just what you own, syncing your place between an e-reader and the browser while turning every session into statistics. Its TomeSync plugin for KOReader records time on page, pages turned, and device, then syncs positions bidirectionally and works fully offline, queuing sessions until you reconnect. Browse and bulk-download whole series from the e-reader menu, with stable book IDs keeping history intact when files change. Reading stats grow sharper the more you read: streaks, time-of-day heatmaps, pace, completion estimates, author affinity, and per-book breakdowns fill three insight tabs. The built-in reader opens EPUBs with themes and font controls, manga in page, spread, or webtoon scroll modes with RTL support, and PDFs directly. Volumes group into series with arcs and status badges, so a forty-volume saga reads as one story. Metadata arrives from Hardcover, Google Books, and OpenLibrary with a side-by-side diff and cover picker. A Bindery inbox reviews incoming files before they join the library, and the OPDS catalog serves KOReader, Panels, or any OPDS client with per-user PINs. Admin, member, and guest roles govern per-book visibility behind API tokens. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Drop a hard drive's worth of comics, e-books, and audiobooks into folders, point Kumiho at them, and the whole collection becomes a library you can browse and read from any browser. The scanner walks nested folders recursively and treats the folders that actually hold pages or files as series, so an existing collection works as it is, with no metadata matching ritual before the first read. Comics and manga open in a responsive viewer built for the format: page turning on a desktop, continuous webtoon scrolling on a phone or tablet. E-books in EPUB, PDF, and TXT open in the same library, while archives in ZIP and CBZ are read directly without unpacking. Audiobooks get a real player, with a chapter list, resume playback that remembers where you stopped, progress tracking, bookmarks, and a sleep timer for listening at night. A series folder can even carry its own soundtrack: an MP3 whose filename matches starts playing as background music while you read. Everything runs from one lightweight Go server in a single Docker container, storing its database and configuration in mounted volumes, so the library sits comfortably on a small VPS next to the files it serves. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Find a title tonight and wake up to it named, filed, and ready to play: Mediarium is a self-hosted media manager that finds, downloads, repairs, and organizes movies, TV, music, ebooks, and audiobooks from one web page on your own server. Search once and it queries your Usenet and torrent indexers together, grabs the best release, unpacks it, applies your naming rules, and places it where Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby expects it. Quality profiles with upgrades and fallbacks keep hunting better copies automatically, while delay profiles, a blocklist with retries, and tags such as Kids or 4K keep the wrong releases out and collections tidy. Subtitles are matched to your exact file, with a timing fix when one runs out of sync. Family accounts carry permissions of their own: relatives who cannot add titles send requests you approve, and watch history read from your media server drives statistics and optional cleanup rules. The built-in Books app reads ebooks, plays audiobooks chapter by chapter, remembers your place everywhere, and even opens Kindle books. Torrents can run behind a built-in WireGuard VPN with a kill switch, downloads repair and unpack themselves, and notifications, backups, and a post-import script keep the routine invisible. Moving over reads your Radarr, Sonarr, Prowlarr, SABnzbd, and other existing setups without changing them. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.