EduardoSantos 40 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) I would like it very much to use Emby as the repository for my digital books. In fact I do but there seems to be so little progress on these features for so long that I am actively considering other options. - There's no way to actually read a book through Emby: just download it; - There's no search for author or even a means to show neither overview about them nor from the books Are there real plans to improve Emby as a book repository? Edited March 18, 2021 by EduardoSantos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EduardoSantos 40 Posted March 20, 2021 Author Share Posted March 20, 2021 Guess it's a no... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speechles 1912 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 (edited) If you use Calibre to curate the metadata for the books this should appear in Emby. It used to appear with the plugin version of the same. Once you use Calibre to sync the books have Emby scan the library and pick up the changes Calibre has made. Each book must have its own folder. Each folder of each book must be inside each respective Author folder. Multiple versions of a book (epub, rtf, pdf, zip, etc) can be inside a single book folder. But if using ZIP only put one book inside each compressed archive. Books/Author/NameOfBook(Year)/BookByAuthor.pdf Books/Author/NameOfBook(Year)/BookByAuthor.nfo Books/Author/NameOfBook(Year)/Folder.jpg Edited March 20, 2021 by speechles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 36884 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Quote Are there real plans to improve Emby as a book repository? Hi, yes there are, it's just that development for other media types comes first right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfragger 39 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 In the meantime I recommend Komga (pdf, cbr [but no solid RAR archive]) or Ubooquity (pdf, ePub, cbr) both free and java based. java -jar -Xmx3g komga-0.82.0.jar recommend starting with 3GB to avoid heap memory exceptions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mauriciomaurente 2 Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 This is a niche that any good programmer could earn $$. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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