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.
Whats the best way to manage a large collection? both Calibre and Readarr do not handle to book naming convention/layout you guys recommend. As I have a large library its not feasible to imagine doing one at a time. Kavita is scanning but not importing my books. Maybe you could implement some sort of book renamer/sorter in the future.
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'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!
Did you split it in several libraries or did you just scan the saem library over and over again while adding content before each scan? I'm on the same setup and my scans seem to not start anymore and weird things are happening, like scanning still showing notifications, but no new books found, and database errors...
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
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.
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
Thank you for the video. After watching your video I thought I’d try Kavita. It seems really good but I’m having an issue where it’s only loading the cover images for my mangas 😢.
Can't do any more of the "arrs" on here for fear of losing my channel. I've already got a community guideline strike for making a video about YTDL despite hundreds of other similar videos about the same service being on the site with no issue.
@@DBTechYT ohhh no way ! That's a bummer. I really like your vids. Straight to the point and good explanations, helped me build my own media server :) !
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.
Kavita doesn't scrape it automatically. It's pulled from your files. But there are external tools that support pulling external metadata and I believe covers.
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 😢
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
Let's say you've got 3 different categories of material. Create a directory for each of them and then upload your content to those directories. In the docker compose, you just need to map the volumes. /your/manga/directory:/manga /your/anime/directory:/anime /your/hentai/directory:/hentai Where I've got "/home/manga/directory" you'd want to put the path to where you uploaded the files. It might actually be something like: /home/tibi/manga:/manga /home/tibi/anime:/anime /home/tibi/hentai:/hentai Be sure to change the path on the left side of the ":" to wherever your content is on your server.
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.
Whats the best way to manage a large collection? both Calibre and Readarr do not handle to book naming convention/layout you guys recommend. As I have a large library its not feasible to imagine doing one at a time. Kavita is scanning but not importing my books. Maybe you could implement some sort of book renamer/sorter in the future.
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'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!
100k comic library? make a favor to humanity and share that. 🥲
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Did you split it in several libraries or did you just scan the saem library over and over again while adding content before each scan? I'm on the same setup and my scans seem to not start anymore and weird things are happening, like scanning still showing notifications, but no new books found, and database errors...
Kavita is awesome! I need to get it back up and running. Awesome video as always.
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
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.
I kid you not I was looking for a calibre-web replacement and stumbled across Kavita a couple of days ago. 😆
Thanks for the video. I just switched to Kavita from Komga cause it just looks more polished to me
Top-notch video as always.
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
Calibre-web
thanks for the video . i was wondering is this good for audio book as well?
Are all of the Books stored on Docker? or are read from the shared forlder to Docker?
@3:52.. could not understand the part.. i don't know how to map ? can someone help?
nicely explained. thank you!
Thanks DB Tech.
Thank you for the video. After watching your video I thought I’d try Kavita. It seems really good but I’m having an issue where it’s only loading the cover images for my mangas 😢.
then I would reach out to them on their github
I really need help with Kavita :( I don't know how to use it
Yep, unfortunately this is very much outdated. Can't even install it via docker this way anymore.
Would be nice to have a video with readarr and kavita :)
Can't do any more of the "arrs" on here for fear of losing my channel. I've already got a community guideline strike for making a video about YTDL despite hundreds of other similar videos about the same service being on the site with no issue.
@@DBTechYT ohhh no way ! That's a bummer. I really like your vids. Straight to the point and good explanations, helped me build my own media server :) !
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.
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
There is. If you need help, drop by the discord and we can get you sorted out.
@@majora2007-joe thanks for your help, Dornus#0611
@@majora2007-joe my plan was to add all my books to the book folder and make collection for specific topics like finance, productivity, fiction, …
Do you have to add the book's cover manually, or can kavita scrape it automatically?
Kavita doesn't scrape it automatically. It's pulled from your files. But there are external tools that support pulling external metadata and I believe covers.
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 😢
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 am experiencing the same thing.
Try Komga for Manga
Has extension for Tachiyomi as well.
I'm building a publishing service, could I use this on my website/subscription area if I make one?
Yes. Kavita is free software licensed under GPL 3.0. You can read up on it or even ask on their subreddit if you are uncertain.
nice
How did you get it to see tbat books folder ?
Let's say you've got 3 different categories of material. Create a directory for each of them and then upload your content to those directories.
In the docker compose, you just need to map the volumes.
/your/manga/directory:/manga
/your/anime/directory:/anime
/your/hentai/directory:/hentai
Where I've got "/home/manga/directory" you'd want to put the path to where you uploaded the files.
It might actually be something like:
/home/tibi/manga:/manga
/home/tibi/anime:/anime
/home/tibi/hentai:/hentai
Be sure to change the path on the left side of the ":" to wherever your content is on your server.
@DBTechYT ah so I have to create the share in docker and then assign it to kavita
It doesn't necessarily have to be a share in docker. It just has to be a share that your docker server can reach either directly or over the network
its terrible at storing books, its made with a clear focus to just do manga.