In-Progress Ebook Library / Reader

[miniliQuid 94]

Not sure if there are actually many people using emby that also read a lot of books.

However with Ebooks being a hot thing right now this idea popped into my head.

I have a lot of ebooks which I generally keep on my normal PC.

However this way it has no back-ups cause I only back-up my server to an external location.

So I was thinking about switching them to my server and then I thought I can also put them in the emby folder.

 

The request may be a bit out of the ordinary since emby is more for playing files and things rather than reading, but could a reader be implemented at some point in the future?

A book library and an implemented reader, specially for mobile devices I guess (phone/tablet), but perhaps for browser/theater?

 

Would help me get rid of yet another app and have all my "media" in the same place

 

Edit: If you liked this also take a look here for ebook expansion https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/80398-book-serverreader-incorporation-suggestion/

Edited December 30, 2019 by miniliQuid

[Jdiesel 1431]

Have you tried using the book library type?

 

I don't think there is any way to view books in any of the emby apps at the moment, only download them to your devices. 

[peredor 0]

hi,

I actually added my books, but there is no ebook reader implemented.

Metadata is another point, but a simple reader couldnt be so difficult i think, a verry good reader for websites already exists.

Ii think we could use the reader without license problems.

 

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The Source is on GitLab, https://gitlab.com/trantor

 

Trantor is a library website with database, similar to emby but only for books.

You can download the source and install it on your linux server, but you have to set up the Webserver and mariadb on your own.

There is no robot for metadata in Trantor, so you have to feed the database by hand

 

greetings Peredor

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[miniliQuid 94]

Have you tried using the book library type?

 

I don't think there is any way to view books in any of the emby apps at the moment, only download them to your devices. 

No not yet, cause I am pretty much unsure if I actually want it since I would still need a reading app for it.

Though when it is on the server putting it in emby may be beneficial (and others have easier access to them as well).

But my main interest would be a way to read them (so no downloading of files).

 

I have disabled file downloading on my server for all users, so they wouldn't be able to do anything with the books if there is no reader.

That's the reason I started this topic to see if people would be interested in something like that (cause I would be )

[CivBase 2]

I would also appreciate an embedded ebook reader. It would be especially useful for ebooks that I use as technical references.

[lexisdude 145]

Please review; been at this request for a LONG time now.

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/80398-book-serverreader-incorporation-suggestion/

[miniliQuid 94]

Added my vote to it there

[Patjo 1]

Added my vote, also :)

[tmysik 9]

In my case, a library would be great. I could download the file and transfer it to my e-book reader quite easily.

 

[miniliQuid 94]

On 2/8/2022 at 5:27 PM, tmysik said:

In my case, a library would be great. I could download the file and transfer it to my e-book reader quite easily.

 

Just a library to download is already possible at this point.
So having a library and downloading the files is currently an option.

Now what we need is a book reader implementation to complete it (so downloading is no longer needed).

[tmysik 9]

@miniliQuid a library with book metadata? or just files? I am asking because I haven't seen metadata like book authors, series, etc.

Thanks.

[iPhoneMaxPro 16]

New for support ebooks?

 

[Luke 42077]

3 hours ago, iPhoneMaxPro said:

New for support ebooks?

 

Hi, no news at this point but we plan to expand on our book features in future updates. Thanks.

[Luke 42077]

There is now an OpenLibrary plugin in the Emby Plugin catalog for books, and it supports ISBN lookup.

Please try it out and report your experience. Thanks !

[Luke 42077]

An update to the Emby Open Library plugin has gone out to support lookups using either ISBN or the Open Library Work Id. The Work Id should help make matching easier, although you can still lookup using ISBN. Here is clarification on the differences between Open Library works and editions:

https://openlibrary.org/help/faq/editing#work-edition

[User2808 3]

The ID didn’t found anything… can you give an Open Library Work Id for example… I use „OL15413843W“ to get Panem but it didn’t work. 

Sincerely

[Luke 42077]

6 hours ago, User2808 said:

The ID didn’t found anything… can you give an Open Library Work Id for example… I use „OL15413843W“ to get Panem but it didn’t work. 

Sincerely

OL27448W

[brothom 177]

+1. ebooks are very interesting, physical media is disappearing and harder to get and I miss reading books but getting old scifi books is a pain... with the exception of ebooks.

I'd love to see some player integrations as well, I did find some promising Javascript readers like epubjs for .epub files: https://github.com/futurepress/epub.js.

Would love to see support for it, even if only via the browser or mobile app.

I'm not going to read a book via chromecast or my tv anyway lol.