BookLore

BookLore is a self-hosted web app for organising and managing your personal book collection. It provides an intuitive interface to browse, read, and track your progress across PDFs and eBooks. With robust metadata management, multi-user support, and a sleek, modern UI, BookLore makes it easy to build and explore your personal library.

This is an unofficial snap. After installing, and waiting for the the various services to start, your instance will be accessible at http://localhost:41935

You'll probably want to connect the snap as follows to allow access your books which should be in /mnt/somewhere or /media/somewhere so that the snap can access them:

sudo snap connect booklore:removable-media

sudo snap connect booklore:mount-observe

There are three services, nginx (the web server), booklore-api (the backend API server), and mariadb (the database server). The database files and logs are stored in the snap's data directory, which is preserved across snap updates.

Ports

You can change the port that each service uses with the following commands:

For the port that nginx listens on (default 41935):

sudo snap set booklore port=<desired-port>

For the port that MariaDB listens on (default 41936):

sudo snap set booklore database-port=<desired-port>

For the port that booklore-api listens on (default 41937):

sudo snap set booklore api-port=<desired-port>

After changing the ports, you will need to restart the snap for the changes to take effect:

sudo snap restart booklore

Database

If you need to connect to the MariaDB database from outside the snap, the username is booklore and you can use the following command to get the password:

snap get booklore database-password

You can also connect with the following command as root:

sudo mariadb --socket=/var/snap/booklore/common/run/mysql/mysqld.sock -u root --skip-ssl