CerebralHawks

Because both Microsoft Office and iWork have become so dependent upon AI and subscriptions and LibreOffice just comes out and says “hey we don’t use AI and by the way, want a free office suite that’s just like the big ones before they enshittified?”. Of course people checked it out.

Hopefully others take note.

It looks interesting, but I’m on a Mac. Its server requires Windows, Linux, or Docker. I’ve never been able to figure out Docker. Like I said to the last person, I’d like to set up a Linux server, and I’d use Audiobookshelf there.

Yeah, Navidrome looks interesting. I use Plex for everything now (though it doesn’t do books) but I kinda want to, as a project, acquire a used Intel 8th/later gen i3 or i5 workstation, throw Linux on it, and run my servers off of that, and just be able to remote in from my desktop. So if I did that, I’d probably run Jellyfin for movies/TV (with Plex as a backup until it’s not viable… I feel like it won’t be for long), Navidrome for music, and some others.

Skimming the changes, I see Jellyfin supports books? Like text and comics. So I gotta ask, how’s the audiobook support?

I’m a Plex user who has used Jellyfin in the past, and I feel like I had to hack audiobook support into Plex. It works, but it’s not great. A book server would be interesting to run, though I’m personally more interested in audiobooks for consumption. Books would be an interesting service to offer.

So then it begs the question, is a Jellyfin app (iOS or Android) also a book reader now? If not (as I imagine), is there a dedicated book app? And, does it have the magical feature of having a book keep progress with the audiobook? I think that is the killer feature.