{"slug": "booklore", "name": "Booklore", "category": "dev-libs", "category_name": "Libraries and frameworks", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 2, "score": 1.13, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-12-16", "latest": "2026-07-30", "why": "I am using a locally hosted version of https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore which supports OPDS protocol", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 1, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I am using a locally hosted version of https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore which supports OPDS protocol", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/booklore-app/booklore", "official_url": "https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Booklore", "BookLore"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 785724512, "item_id": 49107782, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107782", "by": "kristophph", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am using a locally hosted version of https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore which supports OPDS protocol", "excerpt": "> - I literally endure calibre because that's how I feed koreader. Any alternatives? I am using a locally hosted version of https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore which supports OPDS protocol. KOReader can then directly connect to that booklore server and you browse your library and download what you want. It is not the best UX ever but it works :)", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted ebook library", "switched_from": "", "story": "KOReader"}, {"id": 765079216, "item_id": 47817451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817451", "by": "nightski", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recently switched to Booklore on my NAS.", "excerpt": "I have a smattering of books on Kindle, mostly fiction/novels. But the vast majority of my book conllection consists of non-fiction/textbooks and I recently switched to Booklore on my NAS. I have over 900 textbooks and can access them anywhere via a WireGuard VPN. It's so slick! Booklore seems great, but I'll admit there may be even better options. However this is the future of books for me. I'd like to start replaci", "context": "has over 900 textbooks", "use_case": "self-hosted ebook library", "switched_from": "Kindle", "story": "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"}, {"id": 752152608, "item_id": 47009538, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009538", "by": "unsnap_biceps", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://booklore.org is a new discovery!", "excerpt": "https://booklore.org is a new discovery! This looks like a great replacement for Calibre", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted eBook server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Choices for a Self-Hosted eBook Server"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 772929777, "item_id": 48308111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308111", "by": "bndct_devops", "date": "2026-05-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "got abandoned overnight", "excerpt": "This is the first thing I've built from scratch that I am really proud of and might fill a need some other people have. I got into it because BookLore, which I was using to manage my ebook library, got abandoned overnight (might have shown up here once or twice) after spending a week onboarding my whole library. So I built Tome. It's a self-hosted ebook library server that does what I actually need: - TomeSync (KORea", "context": "", "use_case": "Ebook library management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Tome \u2013 Self-hosted eBook library with KOReader sync and reading stats"}, {"id": 765080720, "item_id": 47817545, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817545", "by": "dml2135", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "There was some whole blowup with Booklore over it being vibecoded by a single maintainer recently.", "excerpt": "There was some whole blowup with Booklore over it being vibecoded by a single maintainer recently. I think the project has changed ownership since then, but be cautious. I use Calibre + Calibre Web. Definitely a bit old and clunky, but reliable.", "context": "", "use_case": "ebook library management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"}]}], "who": [{"by": "nightski", "context": "has over 900 textbooks", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817451", "date": "2026-04-18"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["self-hosted ebook library", "ebook library management", "self-hosted ebook server"], "compared": [{"slug": "calibre", "name": "Calibre", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816878", "title": "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49095865", "title": "KOReader", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308090", "title": "Tome \u2013 Self-hosted eBook library with KOReader sync and reading stats", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009245", "title": "Choices for a Self-Hosted eBook Server", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283016", "title": "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"warn": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 785724512, "item_id": 49107782, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107782", "by": "kristophph", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I am using a locally hosted version of https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore which supports OPDS protocol", "excerpt": "> - I literally endure calibre because that's how I feed koreader. Any alternatives? I am using a locally hosted version of https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore which supports OPDS protocol. KOReader can then directly connect to that booklore server and you browse your library and download what you want. It is not the best UX ever but it works :)", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted ebook library", "switched_from": "", "story": "KOReader"}, {"id": 772929777, "item_id": 48308111, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48308111", "by": "bndct_devops", "date": "2026-05-28", "stance": "warn", "quote": "got abandoned overnight", "excerpt": "This is the first thing I've built from scratch that I am really proud of and might fill a need some other people have. I got into it because BookLore, which I was using to manage my ebook library, got abandoned overnight (might have shown up here once or twice) after spending a week onboarding my whole library. So I built Tome. 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Definitely a bit old and clunky, but reliable.", "context": "", "use_case": "ebook library management", "switched_from": "", "story": "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"}, {"id": 765079216, "item_id": 47817451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47817451", "by": "nightski", "date": "2026-04-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recently switched to Booklore on my NAS.", "excerpt": "I have a smattering of books on Kindle, mostly fiction/novels. But the vast majority of my book conllection consists of non-fiction/textbooks and I recently switched to Booklore on my NAS. I have over 900 textbooks and can access them anywhere via a WireGuard VPN. It's so slick! Booklore seems great, but I'll admit there may be even better options. However this is the future of books for me. I'd like to start replaci", "context": "has over 900 textbooks", "use_case": "self-hosted ebook library", "switched_from": "Kindle", "story": "Amazon is discontinuing Kindle for PC on June 30th"}, {"id": 752152608, "item_id": 47009538, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009538", "by": "unsnap_biceps", "date": "2026-02-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://booklore.org is a new discovery!", "excerpt": "https://booklore.org is a new discovery! This looks like a great replacement for Calibre", "context": "", "use_case": "Self-hosted eBook server", "switched_from": "", "story": "Choices for a Self-Hosted eBook Server"}, {"id": 740606400, "item_id": 46287900, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287900", "by": "wrxd", "date": "2025-12-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "they are still ironing out all the kinks", "excerpt": "I haven't updated to a version with the feature yet but support for it has been added recently In https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/pull/1541 and https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/pull/1644 I noticed that there is also this issue open https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore/issues/1898 so it sounds like the core of the feature is there but they are still ironing out all the kinks", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quill OS: An open-source OS for Kobo's eReaders"}]}