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Readarr

E-book and audiobook collection manager

E-books & Media Library Archived ★ 3.5k stars Medium setup GPL-3.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained e-books & media library alternative.

Readarr is an e-book and audiobook collection manager that automates organizing and acquiring titles, in the Servarr family. It targets users automating their reading library. It is deployed via Docker or binaries.

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Key features

  • Automated library management
  • Author and series tracking
  • Integrates with download clients
  • Servarr-family UI

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Automates collection
  • Familiar Servarr interface
  • Good metadata tracking

Trade-offs

  • Project entered retirement
  • Metadata sources are limited

Is Readarr secure?

OSV.dev lists 1 published advisory for Readarr. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-50983, published 2025-08-27 (413 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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