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Best Cross-Platform E-books & Media Library for self-hosting

The 27 best Cross-Platform e-books & media library you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

KOReader

E-books & Media Library

Document and ebook reader for e-ink and mobile devices

Replaces Kindle, Pocketbook reader

★ 28.8k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Koodo Reader

E-books & Media Library

Cross-platform ebook reader with annotations and sync

Replaces Calibre, Apple Books

★ 27.8k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Calibre

E-books & Media Library

Powerful ebook library manager with a built-in server

Replaces Kindle, Apple Books

★ 25.6k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Readest

E-books & Media Library

Cross-platform ebook reader with sync server

Replaces Kindle, Apple Books

★ 23.2k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Ebook2audiobook

E-books & Media Library

Convert ebooks into narrated audiobooks locally

Replaces Audible, Speechify

★ 19.6k Medium setup Apache-2.0

DeDRM Tools

E-books & Media Library

Calibre plugin suite for removing DRM from purchased ebooks

Replaces Adobe Digital Editions

★ 15.3k Medium setup GPL-3.0

Suwayomi-Server

E-books & Media Library

Self-hosted manga reader and downloader server

Replaces ComiXology

★ 7.4k Medium setup MPL-2.0

Sigil

E-books & Media Library

Multi-platform EPUB ebook editor

Replaces Adobe InDesign EPUB export

★ 6.9k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Libation

E-books & Media Library

Audiobook library manager and Audible backup tool

Replaces Audible app

★ 6k Easy setup GPL-3.0

PDF Arranger

E-books & Media Library

Desktop tool to merge, split, and rearrange PDF pages

Replaces Adobe Acrobat, PDFsam

★ 5.8k Easy setup GPL-3.0

Librum

E-books & Media Library

Modern e-book reader with self-hostable sync

Replaces Kindle, Goodreads

★ 5.3k Medium setup GPL-3.0

13ft

E-books & Media Library

Bypass paywall by acting as GoogleBot

Replaces 12ft

★ 4.2k Easy setup MIT

Thorium Reader

E-books & Media Library

Open-source EPUB and audiobook reader for desktops

Replaces Adobe Digital Editions, Apple Books

★ 2.8k Easy setup BSD-3-Clause

Standard Ebooks Tools

E-books & Media Library

Toolset for producing and validating high-quality EPUBs

Replaces Commercial ebook production tools

★ 1.7k Medium setup GPL-3.0

mangadex-downloader

E-books & Media Library

Command-line downloader for MangaDex manga

Replaces Manual downloads

★ 904 Easy setup MIT

Librivox Mirror

E-books & Media Library

OPDS-driven self-hosted ebook and comic catalog

Replaces Kobo

★ 879 Easy setup MIT

ComicTagger

E-books & Media Library

Cross-platform metadata editor for comic archives

Replaces ComiXology

★ 813 Easy setup Apache-2.0

Koha

E-books & Media Library

Enterprise-class ILS with modules for acquisitions, circulation,

★ 583 Medium setup GPL-3.0

manga-py

E-books & Media Library

Command-line manga downloader for many sources

Replaces Manual downloads

★ 524 Easy setup MIT

Upvote RSS

E-books & Media Library

Generate rich RSS feeds from Reddit, Hacker News, Lemmy, Mbin

★ 492 Medium setup MIT

Tinyfeed

E-books & Media Library

Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds

Replaces Feedly, Google Reader

★ 373 Medium setup MIT

KOHighlights

E-books & Media Library

Viewer and exporter for KOReader book highlights

Replaces Kindle Notebook export

★ 262 Easy setup MIT

Evergreen

E-books & Media Library

Highly-scalable software for libraries that helps library patrons find

★ 153 Medium setup GPL-2.0

Readflow

E-books & Media Library

Track your Kobo reads on Anilist.co and Hardcover.app using

★ 23 Easy setup MPL-2.0

Petrolette

E-books & Media Library

The news reader that doesn't know you

Replaces Netvibes

Easy setup AGPL-3.0-only

Vore

E-books & Media Library

Simple, multi-tenant feed reader

Medium setup MIT

Ubooquity

E-books & Media Library

Free to use, versatile, lightweight, multi-platform, and secure home

Medium setup ⊘ Proprietary

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Cross-Platform within the e-books & media library category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.