Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with multi-user playback sync, metadata management, downloads, and web/mobile clients.
14.1k stars1.1k forksGPL-3.0last commit Actively maintained
5 self-hosted Scribd alternatives
Subscription-based digital library that provides access to ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts and user-uploaded documents across web and mobile apps, with reading/listening features, offline access, and search.
Alternatives to Scribd
Unified web UI to search, aggregate, and download books and audiobooks from multiple sources, with queue management, metadata providers, and client integrations.
3.8k stars226 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
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Self-hosted server for comics, manga, and digital books with a built-in web UI, OPDS catalog support, and a REST API for library browsing and reading.
2.7k stars153 forksMITlast commit Actively maintained
Automates retrieval of missing books tracked by Readarr by searching Library Genesis and downloading matched files into a configured downloads path.
292 stars14 forksMPL-2.0last commit Actively maintained
Fork of Calibre-Web providing a Bootstrap-based web UI to browse, read, convert and serve eBooks, comics and PDFs from a Calibre database with Docker support.
235 stars6 forksGPL-3.0last commit Slowing down
What replacing Scribd actually involves
Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 4 of 5 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: GPL-3.0, MIT, MPL-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.
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