Kavita: Your New E-Book and Manga Server - Ad Free

Hello from one of the contributors Kavita contributors. Thank you for the really great video! 😊

I would like to add that the Devices tab under the User settings is used in conjunction with the Kavita-Email container for allowing send-to-device functionality, like sending a book to your Kindle. We also have extensions for Tachiyomi and Paperback that use our API rather than OPDS. So you can literally read whenever and however you want. 😊

Our next update will include CBL importing support to help users read some of those crazy comic events.

I really need help with Kavita :( I don't know how to use it

Would be nice to have a video with readarr and kavita :)

Do you happen to know any decently looking alternatives to this? On the surface it looks great but Kavita's naming convention makes it pretty much unusable... I've been messing with it for hours now and the only way it will remotely work is if the files have the titlename at the start, then chapter, then volume (or chapter and volume vice versa), then extension.. It doesn't allow for an individual chapter title in the name, and it doesn't acknowledge folder hierarchy or naming, if any of these things are off it just throws everything onto 1 big heap, meaning you cannot by chapter title distinguish the content anymore as some titles describe the chapter, also placing oneshots into a series that do not have a chapter or volume is impossible

Are all of the Books stored on Docker? or are read from the shared forlder to Docker?

How did you get it to see tbat books folder ?

nice

So I finally got around to installing this and it works great however I'm having issues getting this to work with my reverse proxy.

I have it running in a contanier on my Qnap NAS- The reverse proxy is working because it gets me to the Kavita page however, once there I can not login there is sign on optioon but it just erros out.

Qnap contianer -Cloudflare a record - Nginx for the proxy.

Any suggestiosn would be greatly appreciated.

I used it for a few months with my large library but had issues with its limited series management and strange support for epub files were it can show covers and some outlines but not the panels so I had to go back to ubooquity 😢

Komga is another great app that handles comics and manga well with a folder structure rather than metadata/title organization. Would be well worth a video on its own

Do you have to add the book's cover manually, or can kavita scrape it automatically?

thank you for your kavita tutorial Indeed I proceeded to an installation on a docker but I can't add books. As soon as I create a library nothing is displayed yet I took good account volume mapping. Please help me

I've been using Kavita for almost a year now for comics from tablet. It's a life changer. Only thing I'd add to your great video is that if you use arm64 or in general a low-specs system and you have a HUGE library, split into smaller slices. You decide how, by alphabet, year, whatever makes sense to you and then scan them separately. I fed my Raspberry Pi 4 (4 Gb) with a 100K comic library and killed it. So keep that in mind!

Is there a way to add multiple books into a collection like in jellyfin? Because I tried multiple times and the content isn’t shown correctly

Thanks DB Tech.

Glad you are feeling better. I am on UnRaid and just installed this a couple weeks ago. I am loving it so far. I have my books and cook books in the same folder so I have a lot of sorting to do. I luckily pulled my comics and manga out of the "books" folder recently. I am kicking around using Kavita for books and Komga for comics and manga.

Try Komga for Manga
Has extension for Tachiyomi as well.

Kavita is awesome! I need to get it back up and running. Awesome video as always.

I kid you not I was looking for a calibre-web replacement and stumbled across Kavita a couple of days ago. 😆

It also integrates with TachiyomiJ2K which is really great to use

Top-notch video as always.