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I'm looking to expand into having a online library and looking for some real world experiences and opinions. Ideally, looking for someone that worked well with docker and the various arrs.

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[–] Mordikan@kbin.earth 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Readarr was orphaned, so most people switched to using LazyLibrarian. LL is kind of difficult to work with and you'll typically see a lot of failures in the logs for various things. Instead, you could use Shelfmark which fulfills the same general purpose but is more straightforward.

For browsing/reading, most people use Calibre-Web. You can write a simple bash script to do periodic imports via calibredb. Just point the output directory of Shelfmark to the input directory for that command.

EDIT: I'm not sure if this exists in Headscale, but Tailscale also has Services you can setup so that something like machine.some-domain.ts.net:8083 can be mapped as books.some-domain.ts.net. For Kobo Sync or OPDS devices you can just download to local, but if you are just using an Android device, you can stream the book to the device via browser which is very nice.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

We'll that's a shame to hear that readarr was abandoned.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

ShelfMark is the go-to option now. It's also far better than Readarr was and works seamlessly with both Prowlarr and Anna's Archive.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Chaptarr is a thoroughly re-worked fork of Readarr. It's been working nicely for me. Not released publicly yet, but it's going to be soon.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Chaptarr is a thoroughly re-worked fork of Readarr. It's been working nicely for me. Not released publicly yet, but it's going to be soon.

[–] OriginalJay@lemmy.federate.lol 1 points 2 weeks ago

There is a fork of Readarr that works pretty well:

https://github.com/pennydreadful/bookshelf

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Chaptarr is a thoroughly re-worked fork of Readarr. It's been working nicely for me. Not released publicly yet, but it's going to be soon.