jellyfin-web VS jellyfin-plugin-bookshelf

pretty sure all of them require an authenticated user but this one was just fresh in my mind: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/security/advisories/GHSA-89hp-h43h-r5pq

I noticed there is a feature request HERE and an already merged PR HERE. I'm running the current Jellyfin 10.8.10 via docker.

I don't think it's currently possible to define additional data for an author (like a small summary of the authors works etc.), like the TV shows and movies do via online metadata providers. That there is no author's page and that a book series isn't grouped together is as far as I'm aware a limitation of the GUI ( https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web ).

If you build everything from source you also need to build the web client, so a small dive into the whole JavaScript / Node.js ecosystem will be required.

I assume its the new version has more problems detecting the right codec as seen in this post: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/issues/3690

You only have a part of the config.json file. Here's the rest. My config.json looks like this and I have my custom menu links. I did have to go into the site settings and clear all cache/data for them to show up.

Mh. I would claim that AV1 is the problem here. But looking at this issue here AV1 should work in combination with WebM.

In case any value of the opf file is not parsed, you could create an issue about it here: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-plugin-bookshelf

You may want to create an issue about the title sort being ignored here. Thought I can't find anything related to a sort title in the specification. Is it perhaps something Calibre or some other tagging software added? Do you know how it looks like?

I haven't tried it out yet, but apparently Jellyfin has a book plugin that does books, comics, and audiobooks: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-plugin-bookshelf

E.g. metadata for books is handled in the bookshelf plugin (C#). You could look at already existing implementations (e.g. ComicBookInfo or the Epub provider for some easy things) and then implement your own. There are some open issues about missing book providers, but I would start with a file based provider first as look easier than online metadata providers.