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hi, there I added some books .pdf and .epub in emby, but the only thing I can see is file names. how can I read these books in emby? I found some comments said plugin bookshelf is required, where can I download this plugin?

Do you have any plans to add an eReader function to Emby? I would love to have this function to make it a truly universal media player.

Recently reset my book & comic library to get it working with the latest version of emby, and noticed that external metadata files aren't being generated for supported files. Tried manually creating/importing nfo, opf, and xml files, but they're either not supported, not being detected, or aren't properly formatted. Any tips? I'm able to edit metadata for the titles, but it clearly isn't being stored in or with the files. Thus far I've tested cbz, epub, and pdf books with manually extracted cover thumbs. On my home machine, I typically manage my epub books with Calibre (I use the current version), and my cbz books with ComicRack (I don't believe the software's maintained any more, however). While Calibre generates opf metadata files, ComicRack usually stores its metadata of the cb7/cbr/cbt/cbz archive files as an xml archived inside the file. Though I doubt there's time or resources available for emby devs to enable the server software to extract the metadata from these files, I am curious as of what the proper method is since emby's clearly storing the metadata that it does have somewhere (the cache perhaps?). Of additional minor note, the current metadata for books doesn't seem to include an author tag, so I've been keeping that data in the title. Is that intended to be placed in the Studio tag or something? Stay awesome! EDIT: Also, any genre tags on books link to the equivalent Movie genre instead (if they exist). Tags seem to work properly at least.

I really wanted to set up a library of a Textbook collection that I have on Emby, but the Ebook option of the library seems incomplete, since there is no such inbuilt PDF viewer on emby. I would really love it if I could read my books off of one website and i wouldn't need to download it/use different services to stream the PDF instead of using my server for my studies. I have a library of my study lectures and if i am able to stream the PDF's/lecture notes/textbooks from my emby server itself then it would be really convenient. also, it can pair up perfectly with audiobooks, so one can read and listen at the same time without opening any other application, which is another hassle. i request the devs to atleast take a look at my request, it'll be really appreciated.