Popular Post lexisdude 133 Posted December 14, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 14, 2019 (edited) Guys, The ebook side of Emby/MediaBrowser has been long stalled or rather stagnated. I would like to offer up a couple of suggestions. Many people use calibre as an ebook/comic book tool for scraping data and general management of their collection already. This program is absolutely astonishing in its ability to pull metadata from post calibre scans, as well as draw in metadata from the file source and/or directory structure.http://vaemendis.net/ubooquity/ Its a self contained .jar server/reader combination. And honestly I am very impressed by it's small footprint and wide range of abilities. The other option is COPS , which was written specifically with calibre in mind. It is open source, so making it work with emby I would think would be fairly easy.https://blog.slucas.fr/projects/calibre-opds-php-server/ Ever since the original release of MediaBrowser's bookshelf I have always wanted something that would allow me to 'read' my collection, rather than being basically nothing more than a place-set for images of books I own. I am sure that those who mainly have audiobooks are thrilled with bookshelf , but it's nothing more than an extension of the music library IMHO, not new features. We can have both right?Here I give you two suggestions free of charge.. Just because I love you, and Emby Personally I plan on running the Ubooquity Server along side of Emby from now on, just because of it's massive functionality and tiny footprint. But I sure hope that someone decides -- "yeah, ebook support should be in here too" and do something about it - rather than allow this now very very ancient issue to continue to remain an issue. And so I don't have to have 20 different ports open, some with SSL support - some not, because Emby isn't delivering the 'complete package'. (Please take some of this with humor, I know you have your hands full with improvements/bugs/suggestions/requests) Edited December 14, 2019 by lexisdude 71 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Hi, yes hopefully we'll be able to do this in the not too distant future. Thanks 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negativzeroe 70 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 @@Luke is this planned for v4? This is really the last thing I'm waiting on for premiere because I recall lifetime only supports current and next full version number and didn't want it to happen to land in v6. That would be a spot of bad luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 We'll get to book support as soon as we can, but you can probably guess, supporting our existing media formats comes first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
negativzeroe 70 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 For sure. I don't ask eta because I know it's rude just wondering if it was planned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miniliQuid 85 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) Had added my vote cause I really think ebooks should get some love as well Surprised me it gets so few upvotes though Edited February 29, 2020 by miniliQuid 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibbes 431 Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 (edited) Had added my vote cause I really think ebooks should get some love as well Surprised me it gets so few upvotes though That is mainly because there have been lots of topics for this... do a quick search and you'll find a whole list... Same goes for Audiobooks... Edited February 29, 2020 by Dibbes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miniliQuid 85 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 That is mainly because there have been lots of topics for this... do a quick search and you'll find a whole list... Same goes for Audiobooks... Managed to find a few yeah, but picked this one to add my vote to as it already had the most votes (from the ones I found that is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnafa 5 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Emby definitely needs booker reader functionality, cataloging books without the ability to read them within the app is just pointless. I would like to see this added when possible 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1ng_Lear 185 Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 I would love this feature, too. On the other hand I run my Calibre in a docker container on my Syno and this is very convenient. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jbbrack03 34 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 I've also been using Ubooquity to KOreader on my Kindle. So it's really only running as OPDS library. It would be really cool if Emby could host OPDS and also have some sort of sync function. If this gets implemented, I could also move away from running multiple servers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tandhruil 21 Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Vote for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfarrell 13 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 On 2/29/2020 at 3:00 PM, Dibbes said: That is mainly because there have been lots of topics for this... do a quick search and you'll find a whole list... Same goes for Audiobooks... I would think the fact that there are lots of topics on this would be indicative that users care about this issue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 Just now, tfarrell said: I would think the fact that there are lots of topics on this would be indicative that users care about this issue. Hi, we agree, it's just that right now there are more users who care about video, audio, photos and live tv, so that's where we are currently keeping our focus on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfarrell 13 Posted May 13, 2021 Share Posted May 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Luke said: Hi, we agree, it's just that right now there are more users who care about video, audio, photos and live tv, so that's where we are currently keeping our focus on. I certainly agree that audio and video are more important than ebooks, given that audio and video are what Emby is all about. That said, audio and video work perfectly for me and for many users, so if I were the project manager my thought would be that this is a good time to give a little love to other functionality. (Honestly, I don't care about live TV. I don't use it and don't intend to. I don't know if I'm odd in that regard or not, but when I turn on the TV I am far more likely to watch Emby than CNN.) The 3 areas of functionality I see that aren't entirely up to snuff from my perspective are books, video games, and remote use of Emby. I'm not quite sure how video games would work and I'm not sure Emby can do much about remote use given that Emby doesn't control the Internet router or firewall, so that leaves books. (I suspect Photos could use a little love too, but it works and I haven't paid a lot of attention to how it could be improved.) I am presently trying to group many ebooks into a collection with the related videos. In Calibre it's very easy for me to search the books, they're grouped as a "Series" of the collection name I am filling, so I can search on the series name in Calibre and I get them all. Emby doesn't integrate with Calibre, so when I search for them in Emby I don't get most of the books, because Emby only looks at the title, so I have to search up each book separately in Emby and add it to the collection. Another problem I am having is that Emby is pointed at my Calibre collection, and in cases where Calibre has more than one format of the book (most of my ebooks, because Calibre does conversions and I've changed reader devices several times over the years) Emby doesn't recognize that the ebooks have a cover image (even though it's in the folder with the name "cover.jpg") so either I have to manually add the cover to the books or delete formats I'm not using at the moment. I see this as a bug. Also while Emby allows you to group videos (for example) together when you have more than one copy of the same video (for example, The Avengers in 720p, 1080p, and 3D could be listed as one item with one poster), when you have more than one version of an ebook, all versions are listed separately and you can't group them. As I have up to 5 different versions of some books (and most of my ebooks are in multiple formats), my ebook collection looks very cluttered (and mostly without covers, although mostly they're there) in Emby. Here's my perspective: When I am at the TV, I choose to use Emby. When I am sitting at my server (which, being a normal person, is my desktop), I find the video or audio in the file structure and watch it with VLC, find the photo and open it with Windows Photos, and use Calibre for my ebooks. I would like Emby to be good enough that when I'm at my server I don't find it easier to go into the file system, find the file, and use a specialized program on it. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K1ng_Lear 185 Posted November 28, 2021 Share Posted November 28, 2021 Pump it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuJuJurassic 28 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 Any update on this? Given there are a few freebie reading solutions emby could link into. I can visualise a scenario such as.....get up, put the news on the emby tune in plug in, it finishes, so you then put some music on, via emby and read the paper on your tablet, via emby. Then emby would be a complete solution. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 hours ago, JuJuJurassic said: Any update on this? Given there are a few freebie reading solutions emby could link into. I can visualise a scenario such as.....get up, put the news on the emby tune in plug in, it finishes, so you then put some music on, via emby and read the paper on your tablet, via emby. Then emby would be a complete solution. Hi, not yet, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest EmbyEbookReader Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 Hi, there are alot of Emby users waiting for years for Ebook reader and comic book (PDF, CBZ, CBR) functionality... this is way overdue... "Sorry not yet" is really EXTREMELY LAME SOUNDING lame at this point (years after the feature was requested). When is this getting released. Who is working on it , what is the timeline, what release version number will have it? , I am willing to PAY or CONTRIBUTE for this software functionality. I am willing to work as a ALPHA OR BETA TESTER. come on guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuJuJurassic 28 Posted January 31, 2022 Share Posted January 31, 2022 Hey Luke, want some pocket money Actually is there a way of people like "EmbyEbookReader" getting in contact with some Dev's and asking them to create a plug in? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RouxFall 0 Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 It's genuinely laughable that this functionality hasn't been added to Emby yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
obieq 0 Posted June 27, 2022 Share Posted June 27, 2022 still nothing? there are ready controls that propably could be implemented? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Music100 22 Posted August 28, 2022 Share Posted August 28, 2022 I support the suggestions to build this feature into EMBY. It would be very valuable. With most music albums offered in a digital format along with digital PDF booklets, it would be nice to have a program that could both play the music and display the booklet about the music right there on the same page (rather than have to download the PDF booklet from a separate EMBY PDF library). And books, of course. Getting a reader function implemented has an additional perk for the developers since it could give EMBY a competitive edge on similar media servers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uuugh 3 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 I think Emby is 90% there. We can already browse a library of books (as has been mentioned); we only lack the integrated reader for playback. Any thought to: Option 1. Integrating opensource readers. Bibi EPUB Reader https://github.com/satorumurmur/bibi Kooder (just the reader) https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader Option 2. Integrating a general "play with" feature to allow us to link our own apps/programs to play unrecognized formats. This would remove the management (for Emby developers) to integrate new formats. (If this is already possible, sorry, I missed it.) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37133 Posted September 20, 2022 Share Posted September 20, 2022 4 hours ago, Uuugh said: I think Emby is 90% there. We can already browse a library of books (as has been mentioned); we only lack the integrated reader for playback. Any thought to: Option 1. Integrating opensource readers. Bibi EPUB Reader https://github.com/satorumurmur/bibi Kooder (just the reader) https://github.com/troyeguo/koodo-reader Option 2. Integrating a general "play with" feature to allow us to link our own apps/programs to play unrecognized formats. This would remove the management (for Emby developers) to integrate new formats. (If this is already possible, sorry, I missed it.) Yea koodo looks interesting. But actually that's an entire application, so embedding just the reader might not be possible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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