majora2007

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[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Haha, you'd be surprised, it's not brought up that much. It's more about me wanting to build something that has A+ support on sync and fits within the UX I like.

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not sure since I don't use tachiyomi, but when things don't work as expected, I would encourage you to raise a ticket. That way the dev (of the tachiyomi plugin) can investigate.

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Haha I've said this myself many times as well, but you can't just write an opf editor, otherwise you already have Sigil. You have to have metadata scraping and that just adds complexity.

Hope you do write one because we all need it.

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the first one, there is actually a discussion about the whole loose leaf image feature:
https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/issues/2154

Not sure without more information. Kavita has a Media tab now that will tell you when epubs don't import (almost always due to bad internal structural metadata). A quick pass through Calibre or Sigil fixes it.

Not sure from tone of voice if you use Kavita or not, but if you do, sounds like you should voice your opinion on that discussion on the feature as I'll be making my decision soon on it.

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Really? I'll have to investigate this further. I've been looking at ways to interact with Goodreads, but due to lack of API, only scraping methods are there, which are subpar.

Thanks!

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Please through up some feature requests (highlighting is an existing one). Otherwise, it wont happen as I look at the feature requests site each release to pick a few that make sense to me or the community wants.
https://feats.kavitareader.com/

https://feats.kavitareader.com/posts/86/highlighting-saving-selected-text-annotating-for-epub-and-pdf

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No. Tachiyomi uses the API directly, but has some hacks in the code, because of Tachiyomi's architecture. Chapter 0 of a volume means the whole volume is represented in that one file. So if you read it in Tachiyomi, then you'd expect the whole volume to be read in Kavita.

Flattening is where if you have just loose leaf chapters and no volume, Kavita would originally serve as the DB ordered it, so you'd have to click through a pointless Volume 0. Now, everything is put in one and minimized as much as possible to get you to your media as quick as possible.

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is this goodreads bookshelf in Readarr?

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

f there's a method to edit the Metadata of the epub and write it back to the file that I haven't found that would be great.

I got you. We have a wiki article just for this thing:
https://wiki.kavitareader.com/en/guides/misc/calibre

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, those kindle-like devices really suck in that there is no way to load a modern website on them, you have to maintain a non-modern javascript app. It's just a ton of maintenance and extra testing that I'd have to do to support them. I haven't found the email service to be that bad, but agree, the extra step is annoying.

Phone app is coming for sure. It's always been in my vision for the software because I got to have a better Sync support than Plex. I've been hinting at it in my past 4 release notes, basically this 0.7.x are all massive foundational changes that are required before I can even think about starting on mobile development.

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Just know it is not a metadata editor, like Calibre. It's focused on Exploration of your media and consumption. You'll still need to boot up Calibre to get the metadata into your epubs.

[–] majora2007@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I never read on my PC personally. The app is more aimed for using on your tablet. Kindle isn't trivial because it doesn't support modern js. So it's not really feasible, hence why we allow you to setup a Kindle on your account and then send files directly to it (or other devices/email).

 

6 months ago I posted here about Kavita, an open source application that I have been working on that aims to be Plex for reading, and in these past 6 months I've yet again delivered so much that it warrants an update to this subreddit.

Last Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/139te6y/kavita_plex_for_reading_an_update/

What is Kavita?

Kavita is a fast all-in-one reading server which supports comics, manga, and books out of the box, making it easy to share your entire collection with friends and family. Kavita supports a wide range of formats (including epub and pdf), has responsive built-in readers, and offers OPDS-PS support for external reader support.

What's new in the last 6 months:

  • Automatic Collections/Reading Lists: Kavita now can build out Collections and Reading lists from ComicInfo.xml and Epub's OPF formats. Configurable in your library settings if you want disabled.
  • Kavita+: A subscription service (to support me) that expands Kavita's ability into external metadata. Unlocks Scrobbling to AniList, External Ratings, External Reviews, Recommendations (and even recs that you don't own).
  • Personal Bookmarks: The ability to bookmark any text in an epub and quickly jump back to it. Great for cookbooks where you want to save your favorite recipies.
  • Localization: Full localization support via Weblate with quite a few fully translated languages
  • In Depth Metadata Filter: Completely rewrote the metadata filter to allow ANDing and ORing with a crazy number of potential fields to query against then the ability to save these as Smart Filters, which can be found to Side nav or Dashboard.
  • Customization: All users can now customize their side navs and dashboard and bind Smart Filters (aka Metadata Filter query saved) to either, turn on/off any item and reorder them.
  • OPDS Rework: Tons of OPDS Polish to make the experience top notch and pushing as much metadata as possible to the user in a way that works in as many apps as possible. Lots of extra flattening as well (a big critique on Kavita's implementation)
  • A ton more (just look at the release notes from here)

If you want to check it out for yourself, we have a demo available on our site:

https://www.kavitareader.com/

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