Best Self-hosted Books, Comics & Audiobooks Libraries tools in 2026

Calibre is a cross-platform e-book manager to organize libraries, edit and convert formats, fetch metadata, and sync content to e-readers.

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Adobe Digital Editions+3

Self-hosted web app to browse, read, download, and manage eBooks from an existing Calibre library, with OPDS catalogs, user permissions, and device sync options.

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BookFusion+4

Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server with multi-user playback sync, metadata management, downloads, and web/mobile clients.

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Audible+6

Self-hosted, multi-user ebook library with smart shelves, automatic metadata, OPDS, device sync (Kobo/KOReader), BookDrop imports, and an in-browser reader.

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BookFusion+10

Open-source self-hosted reading server providing EPUB/PDF/comics readers, OPDS feeds, rich metadata, user/role management, full-text search and a REST API.

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BookFusion+5

Self-hosted ROM manager that scans, enriches, and organizes game collections, with metadata, artwork, tags, and optional in-browser playback.

Self-hosted media server to organize and read comics and manga, with a web reader, REST API, OPDS catalogs, and eReader sync (Kobo, KOReader).

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Amazon Kindle+7

Open-source, cross-platform Qt e-reader and library manager with cloud sync, highlighting, an in-app bookstore, AI-assisted lookups, and support for common formats.

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Adobe Digital Editions+4

An enhanced Calibre-Web fork that automates eBook ingest, conversion, metadata/cover enforcement, backups, and device sync for a streamlined digital library workflow.

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Amazon Kindle+7

Self-hosted ebook and audiobook collection manager that automates searches, downloads, upgrades, and library organization via Usenet and BitTorrent clients.

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Readarr

BookWyrm is a federated social network to track reading, write reviews, share quotes, and discover books with communities via ActivityPub federation.

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Goodreads+5

Unified web UI to search, aggregate, and download books and audiobooks from multiple sources, with queue management, metadata providers, and client integrations.

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Readarr+5

Self-hosted media tracker to manage movies, TV shows, anime, manga, video games, and books with history, lists, calendar, imports, and multi-user support.

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Trakt+6

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.

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Comixology+7

Openreads is a privacy-oriented Flutter app for Android and iOS to track books you’ve read, are reading, want to read, or didn’t finish, with tags, stats, and CSV import/...

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Goodreads+4

Mylar3 is an automated comic book (CBR/CBZ) downloader and post-processor for NZB and torrent clients, with watchlists, pull lists, and metadata tagging.

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CLZ Comics (Collectorz)+1

Kapowarr builds and manages a digital comic library with metadata, automated searching, downloading, renaming, moving, and optional conversion of issues and collections.

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Collectorz CLZ+2

Self-hosted book-tracking web app to manage read/to-read lists, import/export libraries, tag books, write reviews and run a personal Goodreads-like library.

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Goodreads+4

Koha is a free and open source integrated library system (ILS) for managing library collections, cataloging, circulation, patrons, and online public access.

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ByWater Solutions (Hosted Koha)+6

Self-hosted alternative to Goodreads for logging books, tracking reading progress, and visualizing your personal library with multi-user support.

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Goodreads+5

pyShelf is a lightweight ebook server that scans folders for ebooks, aggregates covers, provides fuzzy search, and lets you browse and download titles via a web UI.

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BookFusion+4

Omeka is a PHP-based open-source web publishing platform for managing, preserving and presenting metadata-rich digital collections and media-rich online exhibits.

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Omeka.net+11

Self-hosted web app to catalog and track personal books with lists, reading progress, ratings, notes, OpenLibrary search, Mastodon sharing, and CSV/JSON export.

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Goodreads+7

Teemii is a self-hosted web app for managing, reading, and indexing manga collections with metadata aggregation and scheduled updates.

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Comixology+7

A lightweight, privacy-first alternative frontend for Goodreads that scrapes and proxies Goodreads pages, offers search and PWA support, and requires no signup.

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Goodreads

Automates retrieval of missing books tracked by Readarr by searching Library Genesis and downloading matched files into a configured downloads path.

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Scribd

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.

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OverDrive Libby+12

Web app for bulk-managing digital comic libraries: convert CBR/PDF to CBZ, rebuild archives, edit CBZ contents, enhance images, remote-downloads and folder monitoring.

Atsumeru is a free self-hosted media server for managing, reading and syncing manga, comics and light novels across native desktop and mobile clients.

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Comixology+9

A scalable open-source integrated library system (ILS) for cataloging, circulation, acquisitions, patron management and consortial workflows with web and OPAC interfaces.

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Follett Destiny Library Manager+6