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OUR EXPERT
Nick Peers has more paper and digital publications than he cares to admit. Maybe Kavita can help the digital library look less chaotic than the piles of paper and magazines filling his office.
OUR EXPERT
Nick Peers has more paper and digital publications than he cares to admit. Maybe Kavita can help the digital library look less chaotic than the piles of paper and magazines filling his office.
Kavita
does for your digital books and comics what Audiobookshelf does for your digital audiobooks – it provides easy access to all your ebooks via a web browser or app, at home and further afield. Although geared towards comic book users and manga fanatics, there’s enough in Kavita to suit those who simply want a user-friendly home to manage, read and share their digital publications.
Put up a bookshelf
If you want to install Kavita natively on your system, head to https://wiki.kavitareader.com/en/install/linuxinstall for instructions. It involves saving the correct build of the latest release at https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/releases to your hard drive, then extracting the .tar.gz archive to a writable directory of your choice, making it executable ( chmod +x ./Kavita ), and running the app directly ( ./Kavita ). You’ll also find instructions for installing Kavita as a Systemd service.
If you’re adding
Kavita
to your server, you may prefer to run it containerised – you’ll find instructions for
Docker
at the
Kavita
wiki, where there are multiple options, including a
LinuxServer.io
version for those who want to run
Kavita
under their own user account.
We’ve also successfully tested the official container with Podman as a rootless container with the following:
Each library can be configured to contain a broad range of file types, or you can restrict it to just the common formats (PDF and EPUB).
You obviously need to adapt the two -v lines to point to your ebooks folder on the one hand, and the location where you plan to store Kavita’s configuration files on the other. We’ve also assumed you’re running Podman through your own user account, which has a UID and GID of 1,000.
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Looking for content with which to populate your library? You can find free books from several legal sources, including Project Gutenberg (www. gutenberg. org) and the Internet Archive (https:// archive.org).
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