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ebooks - manf0001 - 2024-05-27
Hello, I'm using Jellyfin 10.9, along with the bookshelf plugin.
I've just started playing with adding ebooks and have found out, the organization seems very limited to me. Here is what I'm talking about.
For Music libraries, the folder structure is Artist -> Album name -> songs, and it will pull any information in the metadata from the song files I have, or I can modify it them in Jellyfin. I can then search different ways. Songs, Albums, Genere, Artist etc, for me that works just great.
However for the ebooks, the library structure should be about the same Author-> Book Title -> book file, but when I go into the ebook library, it looks more like a folder structure, and I don't have ways sorting, by Author, or Book Title, or even series if it's set in the OPF file. No headings across the top like I would see similar to Music, Movies, or shows.
Am I missing something, or it just hasn't been worked on in a bit? If I wanted to submit a feature request for work on eBooks, what github repo would it be under? Jellyfin, jellyfin-web, or the bookshelf plugin repos?
Thanks
RE: ebooks - TheDreadPirate - 2024-05-27
Book/audio book support is pretty basic. Jellyfin won't do any additional sorting like it does for Music. You will need to set the folder structure you want if you wanted an Author -> List of books by Author kind of structure.
RE: ebooks - bitmap - 2024-05-28
My solution has been Audiobookshelf, which supports audio- and ebooks, has a good player for audiobooks, and a basic reader for ebooks. It also supports podcasts, which was excellent. I actually do a funny thing and link ABS with Jellyfin, then to Symfonium so I can create a smart playlist of podcasts.
I was not happy with the experience in Jellyfin, but there are definitely some great plugins that I don't have an analog for (e.g., OPDS, which would be an amazing way to serve up books for folks).
RE: ebooks - TheDreadPirate - 2024-05-28
Definitely agree on eBooks in Jellyfin. I've found that as long as your audio books are monolithic files, Jellyfin is "good enough". I've been getting some audio books from LibriVox recently and Jellyfin doesn't seem to handle 1 file per chapter very well.