kepubify VS openbooks

The big utility of WASM for me, like OP hints at, is bringing things that would be infeasible to port to the web to it, like, say https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and other conversion tools (eg ffmpeg-wasm). Much preferable to downloading something or uploading a file to some random person’s server

But now just before I did the whole NickelMenu hack I realized that if I download for example 10 epubs and put them on a folder in Dropbox with my phone the kobo will pick them up easily but not perfectly since they will be in epub format and not kepub.... So in the end why risk and spend so much time installing NickelMenu? If in the end probably I will probably still need to go to https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ to convert my epubs to Kobo Epubs one by one to then put them in Dropbox..

If you don't want to use Calibre at all, you can also convert epub to kepub using https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and then sideload the kepub file you get manually on your Kobo

Kobos are good. You can load them with your own files and they support a nice range of formats. Before loading EPUBs, convert them¹ for better performance². Old models keep getting software updates for years, and those can improve performance.

¹ https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

² Though you don’t have to, unconverted EPUBs load fine.

I use kepubify. It works well for me

Yes, you need to run kepubifiy first https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/ and put in dropbox folder the file you get after conversion :)

Convert them to kepub https://pgaskin.net/kepubify/

Kepubify (pgaskin.net)

Pick whatever file you want and use kepubify to generate the kepub

There are already some very good ebooks solutions out there so there's really no need. Calibre for the backend and database management, Calibre-Web for the front end, and Openbooks for content.

OpenBooks link

OpenBooks - Download books from IRC Highway

I’ve got a feeling this if the wrong sub for this kind of request. However, in the mood of selfhosted, here is an app you can host to help you find books you might want.

I love openbooks by evan-buss. I want a version of that for audio books or at least a way to turn those PDF book into audio book with an actual human voice not the robot voice. Does anyone know if there is anything out there like that?

Some things don't have user controls or auth built in that I do share and for that I use cloudflare (openbooks is one such example).

OpenBooks https://github.com/evan-buss/openbooks That's the one I use for individual books. Easy to use.

There are also things like the IRC Highway that allow you to search for books and download them using IRC (https://github.com/evan-buss/openbooks is a friendly UI for using this). You can also check subreddits like r/opendirectories which might have books in PDF format etc.