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📚 BookLore: Build Your Personal Digital Library

a year ago

🔍 What is BookLore?

BookLore is an eBook management system. Simply put: ✅ Store your books on a private server: Upload PDFs and ePub files directly. ✅ Automatically beautify your library: Ugly covers? Messy filenames? It intelligently matches book titles, authors, and covers, transforming your shelf into a bookstore display instantly. ✅ Cloud-sync reading progress: Start reading on your phone, continue on your computer, with progress automatically tracked.

📖 Ultimate User Guide (With Pitfall Avoidance Tips)

🚪 First Login:

  • Username: admin
  • Password: admin123

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You will be prompted to change your password.

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Log in again with your new password to see the homepage:

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📚 Build Your Library in 3 Steps:

  1. Create a Library
    • Click Add a Library → Name it "Fiction Library" or similar.
    • Choose any icon, check Monitor Folder (to automatically scan for new books).

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  • Enter the path as /books (This is the path inside the container, don't change it!).

image.png 2. Upload Books (2 Methods) - Web Upload: - Go into your Library → Click Upload Book. - Drag and drop PDF/ePub files (Note: mobi format is not currently supported!).

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image.png - Direct File Copy: - Drop your eBook files into the ~/books folder in your Lanmoo Netdisk. - Wait about 1 minute for BookLore to automatically recognize them!

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After uploading, if the books don't appear, try clicking refresh. If they still don't show up, restart the application.

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  1. Metadata Repair (Extremely Useful!)
    • Missing cover? Click on the book card → Edit Metadata.
    • The system automatically fetches correct information from Amazon/Goodreads/Google Books.
    • Manually edit author, genre, tags (e.g., "Mystery", "Read").

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💡 Tip: Don't worry about garbled filenames! BookLore uses ISBN for intelligent matching, so a messy filename like asdf.pdf can still be recognized as The Three-Body Problem.

It would be even better if it could scan directly from Lanmoo Netdisk.

💎 Summary

BookLore might not be the most feature-rich option, but it's definitely the easiest to set up for a self-hosted library + delivers the smoothest experience!

It's especially perfect for book lovers who value their privacy—after all, knowledge shouldn't be locked away on someone else's server. ✨

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