LinguaCafe turns your own reading material, novels, news sites, ebooks, and video subtitles, into a private language tutor that lives entirely on your server. Import a text and every word starts out highlighted as new; as you read and mark words known, the highlighting thins out until whole pages sit clean. When an unknown word stops you, the built-in vocabulary search shows its dictionary form, so inflected verbs surface as their infinitive and nouns carry their gender, while optional DeepL translation covers anything the dictionaries miss. Marking a word adds it to your vocabulary, and multi-word selections become phrases that stay highlighted everywhere they appear again. Chapters track how many new, highlighted, and known words they contain, which makes judging a text's difficulty a glance instead of a guess. The review system cycles highlighted words through Leitner-style spaced repetition, and anything you collect can be exported or pushed straight into Anki through AnkiConnect for study on your phone. Japanese learners get kanji and radical breakdowns beside the reading pane. Everything stays local: your books, your words, and your progress never leave the machine. 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.

Every time a commercial book-tracking platform changes its terms or shuts down, years of reading notes and carefully curated wishlists risk getting lost in messy spreadsheet migrations; Jelu puts your entire reading life under your own control as a self-hosted personal Goodreads alternative. Readers log books as currently reading, finished, or dropped, track page progress and dated reading events, and organize titles across unlimited custom shelves using flexible tags. Adding new books takes seconds through mobile camera ISBN barcode scanning, EPUB and OPF metadata extraction, or automated online searches that query Calibre metadata plugins and fallback book providers for covers, summaries, and publisher identifiers. Migrating existing libraries is effortless with bulk imports for Goodreads CSV exports and plain-text ISBN lists alongside one-click CSV data exports. Author pages automatically pull biographies from Wikipedia and include a deduplication tool to merge duplicate author records created during bulk imports. Household and book-club members can sign in via local accounts, LDAP, or reverse-proxy authentication to share book ratings, write public or instance-wide reviews, inspect yearly and monthly reading statistics, and generate HTML or Markdown embed snippets for personal blogs and digital journals. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

For avid readers who want to catalog their home bookshelves and track annual reading progress without handing personal habits to commercial social networks, BookLogr delivers a self-hosted personal library and reading tracker that replaces Goodreads and The StoryGraph. Searching by title, ISBN-10, or ISBN-13 pulls book covers, author names, page counts, and descriptions directly from OpenLibrary, while manual entry and user-defined custom fields let you record text, numbers, dates, selections, or boolean attributes for rare and indie editions. Configurable library tabs organize titles across Reading, To Be Read, Already Read, Did Not Finish, and All views with instant author filtering. As you read, you can update your current page number or completion percentage, log start and finish dates across multiple re-reads, and rate completed books on a granular 0.5 to 5.0 star scale. Readers can capture page-linked notes and favorite quotes, keeping reflections private or publishing them to a dedicated Notes and Quotes feed on a shareable public profile. Automated Mastodon integration posts reading milestones to the fediverse, while OpenID Connect single sign-on and single-user mode adapt the workspace for households or solo collectors. Built-in Goodreads CSV import and one-click exports to CSV, JSON, and HTML guarantee complete data portability. 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.