Manga, comics, ebooks, and light novels get a streaming-service-style home in Kavita - a fast, cross-platform reading server for the DRM-free collection you share with family and friends. It natively serves CBZ, CBR, CB7, ZIP/RAR/7z archives, raw images, EPUB, and PDF, with hand-crafted web readers per format: webtoon scrolling, single and dual-page spreads with advanced caching for the comic reader, and a book reader with adjustable fonts, spacing, margins, color themes, and column modes. Reading progress tracks per user, so everyone resumes exactly where they stopped on any device. Metadata parses from filenames, ComicInfo.xml, and EPUB fields, feeding index-backed search, smart filters, collections, reading lists with CBL import, and Want to Read queues. Role-based user management covers age restrictions, per-library access, and OIDC authentication. An OPDS feed connects third-party clients - Panels on iOS, Librera on Android, KOReader on e-ink devices - and a comprehensive REST API supports custom integrations. EPUB annotation and highlight support, custom theming, and full localization round it out. Built with .NET and Angular, it handles 50,000+ file libraries without strain; optional Kavita+ adds AniList scrobbling, recommendations, and external metadata.

What Jellyfin is for video, Komga is for comics, manga, BDs, magazines, and eBooks: point it at folders of CBZ, CBR, CBT, PDF, and EPUB files and it becomes a proper library with cover art, embedded metadata import, and per-user reading progress. The responsive web reader handles multiple reading modes - left-to-right for western comics, right-to-left for manga, webtoon scrolling - while collections and read lists organize crossovers and story arcs, with ComicRack .cbl read list import for existing curation. Its openness is the real differentiator: OPDS v1.2 and v2.0 feeds serve virtually every reader app (Panels, Moon+ Reader, Mihon/Tachiyomi, KyBook), with OpenSearch and page-streaming extensions so mobile apps fetch pages on demand instead of whole archives. E-ink support is built in, not bolted on - Kobo devices sync directly against Komga instead of Kobo's servers, with two-way read progress, on-the-fly KEPUB conversion via Kepubify, and optional proxying so official Kobo purchases still work; KOReader sync covers everything else. Multi-user management brings per-library access control, age restrictions, and label restrictions for family setups. Housekeeping tools detect duplicate files and duplicate pages, and a REST API feeds a healthy ecosystem of community scripts. Runs from a single Docker container with embedded SQLite.

Curating digital comic archives, serialized manga, and electronic book libraries becomes effortless with Stump, a high-performance reading server that streams media collections over OPDS protocols directly to web browsers and e-reader hardware. Readers can organize extensive collections across CBZ, CBR, PDF, and EPUB formats, utilizing automated scanners that extract embedded ComicInfo XML and Calibre metadata tags. The built-in web reader renders high-resolution comic spreads, continuous vertical webtoon scrolls, and reflowable text with customizable color themes, font scaling, and reading direction toggles. Users can highlight passages, create persistent notes inside EPUB editions, and organize complex franchises into custom reading lists, oneshots, and smart filter collections. Bi-directional synchronization integrates with Kobo and KOReader hardware devices, maintaining page progression and bookmark states across handhelds and desktop sessions. Server administrators can configure multi-user access rules, enforce age restriction thresholds, and provision user-scoped API tokens for automated script pipelines and third-party companion tools. GraphQL and REST endpoints expose the entire catalog structure, allowing media collectors to integrate external metadata scrapers and trigger background library indexing tasks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Omnibus runs your whole comic habit from one shelf: discover a series, request the missing issues, and read them in the browser when they land. Discovery starts with ComicVine or Metron metadata (high-resolution covers, synopses, and creator credits) and a release calendar that flags what you own and what is still missing across your monitored series. Requests are one click for a single issue or a whole run; Omnibus searches your indexers, hands the release to qBittorrent or SABnzbd, then imports, renames, and shelves the file with metadata embedded into the archive itself. Loose files that match nothing meet the Smart Matcher, which proposes the right series and applies every confident match in one pass. The built-in reader opens CBZ, natively read CBR and EPUB files in left-to-right, right-to-left manga, or continuous webtoon modes, with double-page spreads, brightness and contrast controls, page preloading, and preferences remembered per series; an offline button caches a full issue for the road. Reading lists assemble themselves from a pasted event ID or arrive by import from CBL files, League of Comic Geeks CSVs, AniList, or MyAnimeList, always showing how far through them you are. Everyone gets their own account, reading progress, follows, and an Updates feed, while OPDS, KOReader sync, and a Komga-compatible endpoint feed Panels, Mihon, and Paperback on the side. 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.

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.

Uchiyomi is the manga server that also does the fetching, so your library keeps itself up to date while you just read. Follow a series once and new chapters download automatically from MangaDex, from sites you add by URL, or through installable Mihon extensions, with a release radar estimating when the next chapter is likely to land. The reader is built for webtoons first: continuous scrolling flows straight into the next chapter, wide pages split cleanly, borders crop away, and credit pages collapse so you reach the story faster. Your existing CBZ, CBR, PDF, and image files join downloaded series in one searchable library with covers, progress, filters, and smart lists you can share with the household. A health screen hunts down chapter gaps, short or corrupt downloads, duplicates, and failing sources, and Fix Everything works through the repairs on demand or nightly. Reading stats draw a year heat map of your habits, top series, and reading time, while Moments let you star favorite panels with notes. Each household member gets their own account, progress, libraries, and age limits, with two-factor sign-in and offline downloads that keep favorites ready on your phone. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MPL-2.0 licensed.

Manga collections tend to get trapped on a single phone; Suwayomi moves the library, downloads, and reading progress onto a server you run, so every browser and device sees the same shelf. In the browser, a built-in reader handles single page, double page, continuous vertical, continuous horizontal, and webtoon layouts, adding image filters, custom keybinds, auto scrolling, and separate desktop and mobile views. Content comes from Mihon (Tachiyomi) extensions, which can be searched, browsed, and sorted into categories, with custom extension stores loaded from JSON or Protobuf indexes. Downloads save chapters as CBZ archives for offline reading, and the server checks the library for new chapters every 12 hours by default, fetching them automatically if you allow it. Progress follows you through MyAnimeList, AniList, and MangaUpdates, a Suwayomi extension and tracker for Mihon, SyncYomi servers, and KOReader. E-reader apps connect over OPDS feeds, scheduled Mihon-compatible backups protect the library, and FlareSolverr or Byparr support handles Cloudflare-protected sources. Public instances can be locked down with basic authentication, a simple login page, or JWT-based UI login, and a PostgreSQL backend, still in beta, can replace the default file store. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MPL-2.0 licensed.

Your comic and manga collection becomes one tidy library with Comigo, readable in any browser on any device in the house. Point it at a folder and it indexes image folders plus zip, rar, tar, cbz, cbr, and epub archives, then serves pages in scroll or page-turning layouts. Pages arrive cropped and compressed for the screen in front of you, and modern heic and avif files read beside plain jpg and png. A QR code on the server screen brings phones and tablets straight into the same library, and reading position follows you between devices mid-chapter. Your history is tracked automatically, so a series paused last month reopens at the exact page where you stopped. The built-in player handles audio and video stored beside your books, which covers drama CDs and anime extras in the same shelves. Plugins add automatic page turning and an on-screen clock, and you can write your own to change how reading sessions behave. Libraries can live on another Comigo server across the network, whole image folders download in batches, and epub files convert for dedicated e-readers. The offline mode reads archives directly inside the browser with nothing uploaded, which suits borrowed machines and locked-down networks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Issued is a self-hosted comic library server: point it at the folder of CBZ, CBR, CB7, and PDF comics already sitting on your server and the whole collection becomes browsable and readable from any device. Point it at your existing folders and it keeps your folder structure exactly as it is, scanning automatically when new issues appear and generating cover thumbnails so you can see what a file is before opening it. Read in the browser with the built-in web reader on desktop or mobile, with light and dark themes, or connect reader apps such as Panels, Chunky, KyBook, and Moon+ Reader through the standard OPDS catalog at /opds/. OPDS-PSE 1.2 page streaming lets compatible apps read individual pages as JPEGs without downloading whole archives, and OpenSearch discovery lets clients find library search automatically. Edit metadata in place using ComicInfo.xml data, mark series as ongoing to spot new issues, totals, and possible gaps, and use Continue Reading and Last Added views to resume the latest issue in progress or start the next unread one. An optional reader password protects browser access, and one Docker command on port 8181, with unrar included for CBR files, gets the whole library online. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Nowen Reader turns a NAS folder of manga and novels into a private library you can browse, organize, and read from anywhere, without handing your collection to a cloud service. Drop comic archives and ebook files into watched folders and automatic scanning brings them into the library, detecting duplicates and cleaning up invalid entries along the way. Metadata arrives from AniList, Bangumi, MangaDex, MangaUpdates, and Kitsu, so covers, authors, and series information fill themselves in instead of being typed by hand. Read comics in single page, double page, or vertical webtoon modes with image filters and bookmarks, and pick up novels chapter by chapter where you left off. Reading status follows each user, with want to read, currently reading, and finished shelves plus personal ratings, favorites, and progress statistics. OPDS feeds stream pages directly to KOReader, Moon+ Reader, and other compatible apps, so your e-reader pulls from the same library. Optional AI assistance can suggest tags, summarize chapters, analyze covers, and translate pages. Libraries can be public, private, or shared with user groups, with per-library permissions for households. 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.

Manga readers use KamiYomu to build a private, self-hosted library: it fetches chapters from the websites they already follow, archives them locally, and serves everything back through a clean web reader on any device. The discovery flow runs on Crawler Agents, small plugins that teach KamiYomu how a particular source site lists series, chapters, and pages, so searching and fetching metadata happens inside the same interface as reading. Downloads land in a structured local archive, and reading picks up where you left off with history, filters for your library, and weekly views that surface new chapters and fresh releases. When a series is complete, export it as CBZ, PDF, or ZIP and take the files anywhere, no account or cloud library involved. Your e-reader and phone apps join through the built-in OPDS catalog, the same standard used by Moon+ Reader and KyBook, while a Swagger-documented API exposes the collection to your own scripts. Scheduled jobs keep watched series current in the background, checking sources and pulling new chapters without you babysitting tabs. 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.

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.

Bookshelf turns a folder of EPUBs and PDFs you already own into a private library you can browse and read from any browser, at home or on your own server. Drop books into a folder, run the sync, and the shelf appears with covers extracted, titles searchable, and accents forgiven, so typing Bronte finds Brontë. Each reader in the house gets a profile that remembers their place in every book, and picking a book up on your phone resumes where the laptop left it, with a Continue button waiting on the shelf. EPUBs open chapter by chapter instead of downloading the whole archive, and PDFs stream in small ranged reads, so even a large scanned book opens quickly. Choose a two-page spread, a single page, or continuous scroll, then set paper, sepia, or night tints for longer sessions. E-readers join through the OPDS catalog, which lets a Kobo or Kindle-side client browse and download from the same shelf. There is no database to run and no account system to manage; the library is plain files you can back up with the volume. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT 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.

Serious readers organize, convert, edit, and serve their e-book libraries with Calibre - the definitive open-source e-book manager. This deployment runs the full Calibre desktop application on your server, accessible from any browser, so your library lives in one authoritative place instead of scattered across devices. Its conversion engine is the best in the business, translating between every major format - EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, PDF, DOCX, and dozens more - with fine control over fonts, margins, metadata, and structure detection. Metadata management downloads covers, descriptions, series info, and identifiers from online sources, and every field is editable in bulk. Beyond cataloging, Calibre includes a full e-book editor for EPUB and AZW3 internals, a news engine that fetches newspapers and magazines from the web on schedule and converts them into e-books, book comparison tools, and device syncing that sends the right format to each connected reader. The built-in content server exposes your library over HTTP so phones, tablets, and e-readers can browse and download remotely. A deep plugin ecosystem extends everything - metadata sources, format support, store integrations. For power users, the complete CLI (calibredb, ebook-convert) enables scripted library automation. Your books, your metadata, your server - permanent and DRM-free storage under your control.