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I literally just got this all set up and was about to hook up my wife's kobo to it, good timing for this to come out so I don't waste any more of our time with this slop. What a shitshow.
I just spun up Komga instead last night (I was going to set up CWA but I've heard sketchy things about their lead dev that don't leave me optimistic). Very easy to get up and running, pretty basic but it seems to work well and does exactly what it needs to do. I was a bit hesitant since it seemed geared toward comics, but it's handling regular ebooks just fine.
Wait, I use CWA... What do I need to be outraged about this time?
I don't have the full details, but I saw some mentions in that Booklore reddit thread about CWA's dev ignoring major issues in favor of new features and such, something like that. I admittedly didn't really do much research into that nor the tool itself, but Komga's Kobo support seems better, so I just went with it.
what happened with CWA? I was thinking of using it