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CWA is an eBook manager, and it is popular in the selfhosted book space. Please see the changelog link for the full summary, it is well organized and so I didn't copy it here.

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

as an ignoramus what's the go with this?

I use Calibre with my ebooks on an SSD and just upload via USB to my Kobo Colour

I don't have many PDFs there be case they suck using them on my Kobo and I don't have a tablet or anything bigger screened to read them on besides my desktop (yet)

[–] tburkhol@slrpnk.net 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Calibre-web and calibre can share a library directory. You can edit the .kobo/kobo/Kobo ereader.conf file to wirelessly sync to calibre-web instead of kobo.com (while still using kobo.com to buy new ebooks)

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 3 points 9 hours ago

Small nitpick- this project isn't Calibe-Web, it's a fork with extra features; the idea being that you don't also need to be running Calibre.