Can anyone who has experience with both share a recommendation? I’m interested in the user side of things for ebooks (no comics) but also ease of installation and maintenance.

I currently use Calibre-web and while it runs well, I find it cumbersome to organize my books through it.

Edit: great responses, thank you. I do like the idea of just having the epubs in a folder and share those but at least on my setup, the desktop Calibrw app doesn’t open libraries that are mounted from remote locations. They also advise against it.

So for now I guess it’s a choice between a local folder or calibre -web

Man, I tried so hard to get LL working, but couldn’t make it happen. Maybe it’s time to try again…

Its in a pretty good state right now. Docker setup is a breeze.

What makes it easier for me is i dont try to integrate with calibre. It has a setting to copy new books to calibre autoimport dir

Also dm me if you get stuck. I wrote the latest docs revision and used to mod /r/lazylibrarian

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