I hadn’t seen this analysis. Thanks for sharing!

Oh sick. This seems to have the request feature I’m looking for. Thank you for the recco! I’ll be checking it out.

What’s Ephemera? I haven’t heard of it before.

I’ve checked out Booklore before, but Calibre-web-automated + calibre has been working well. The feature this is missing, and the feature from Readarr I use, is a “wanted” list.

I mean, it’s not an issue, but it has been fun to build out and use. We’re also going to the library in town just about weekly, so the service may be overkill if you don’t want it.

Other than it being convenient to access your books from multiple machines, a big feature of a server based solution is for my wife to download what she wants from our library.

That’s a fair POV. Readarr has never been the dashboard for me, rather a maintained list of “wanted” books.

Are you telling Prowlarr to snag individual books as you come across them?

What’s your bash script doing? Moving and renaming files into the proper format/location?

Can calibre-web-automated handle the metadata look-up? I’m using it as my web frontend for serving books.

I don’t mind going and finding individual books from IRC or other sources, but being able to subscribe to a centralized, “I want to read this” list is the feature I’m looking to replace at the end of the day.

This is cool, thanks for sharing!

That’s where I am! RReading glasses has been great for lookup, but Readarr regularly losing track of files and failing to manually reattach them is exceedingly annoying.

What do you make of the rreading glasses developer not endorsing chaptarr?

Oh awesome! Glad you were able to find a tool that works for you.

Unfortunately I believe it isn’t available on iOS. On Android you can install it from a few sources. Directly from GitHub, or via F-Droid(or something similar). I’m with you though, that feature is key to me not scrolling forever.

I’m honestly surprised how many people I see doing this. No judgement , it’s just now how I use the device.

I couldn’t give up my syncing of progress! I love being able to pick up on the Kindle app on my phone if I’m in a waiting room then back to my kindle proper at home.

I’m jazzed to finally have been able to jailbreak my device so I can use KoReader on both the phone and Kindle and keep the same experience.

I had a similar reading experience but may have enjoyed it a bit more than you. It’s a very strange and quiet book.

And thank you for pointing me towards the Folio Society. Those printings are amazing!

I’ve been traveling and haven’t had as much reading time as I’d like. That said, I’ve taken a good chunk out of Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson, which I’ve been enjoying! Some of it is ponderous, but much of it feels worthwhile detail and specificity.

I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, but I can see how it’s not for everyone. There’s a lot of math and science talk which I enjoyed, but could feel textbooky for some. It’s a fairly quick read so I’d recommend trying a few more chapters to see if it clicks, and moving on if not. Different strokes and whatnot!

Thanks for the Solaris recco! It’s been on my To-Read for a while.

It’s crazy to me how much this book is the root of the cyberpunk tree. So much of the terminology is identical across the genre. Great book!

Finished Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir, a little over a week ago, and finally dove into Wind and Truth, Brandon Sanderson. I’d been putting this off since I have a problem with finishing a series, or chunk of one in this case.

While I still love The Stormlight Archive, I think I’ve come to realize that Sanderson doesn’t write believable enough dialogue for me. It comes across as flat and somewhat childish. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Only just finished River of Blue Fire, Tad Williams, and will likely finish book three and four of the quartet for my active audiobook.

Fair enough! Enjoy your next read :)