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I've heard about Kavita and CWA. Kavita can't fetch metadata sadly and it has too much behind the "+" service and CWA, as far as I know, is not very good for managing Manga and Comic.

Any recommendations? I would prefer it to be able to get it on the same app so I don't have to constantly change IP on Kindle.

UPDATE: if you take the Komga & Komf route, use Komga 1.24.4 and Komf 1.7.1. Looks like newer releases of both just don't work for some unholy reason.

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[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

BookOrbit is doing pretty well for me so far with comics. Seems to have manga options about reverse reading direction.

Even better for books too. Can do koreader opds and email books as well. (I have a kobo so I haven’t tried the kindle-orientated email, but I assume it’s ez pz)

Very good metadata ingestion. And the book/comic libraries aren’t in different silo’d worlds like they are with Calibre and its derivatives.

I’m pretty pleased so far, have found some niggles but nothing bad. And the good stuff plenty outweighs anything else. It’s all ready to go, I switched libraries quickly. And it ate up my old library with its different (not as good) naming style and realigned it automatically, which was nice.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

BookOrbit

That was mentioned here the other day in another thread. I'm going to have to check it out. It looks so much more polished than Calibre, which is not bad, just blah.

[–] glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed that was me in the other thread on book managers, so to be fair people aren’t raving about it - only I am haha!