Comment by wrxd
10 days ago
That’s cool, and unexpected from a corporate blog.
Ma favourite e-reader setup still is the Kobo + Booklore combination. Editing a configuration file on the device I can have it connect to my Booklore library that adds my own ebooks seamlessly on top of the one I can get from the Kobo store.
I haven’t setup Tailscale on it yet but it’s possible.
Do you have any more information about this?
This explains how to integrate Kobo with BookLore https://booklore-app.github.io/booklore-docs/docs/integratio...
I haven’t personally setup Tailscale yet, but looking at this it seems possible and not too difficult https://github.com/videah/kobo-tailscale
I did it myself, tailscale on kobo works great and is not complicated to install
How does Booklore compare with something like Calibre?
The setup is
install Tailscale on your Kobo
install Koreader
Install Tailscale on the machine that host your eBook collection app of choice
Add the OPDS URL from the collection app, replacing the local machine URL with the Tailscale URL
You can now browse and download your private collection from anywhere.
I went with Kavita since I wanted my eBooks treated as equals with my manga.
This is what I'm currently doing sans tailscale. I'm running Ubooquity on a server in my homelab as my OPDS service to serve the ebooks hosted on a mounted NAS. I can download any of those books from my Kobo with a few presses on Koreader. It's pretty great. My Kobo Forma is probably one of my best and most used tech purchases. I've had it since 2019 and couldn't be happier with the device + setup. Getting it set up with tailscale so I can fetch ebooks when I'm away from home sounds like a pretty good upgrade.