Kavita

Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform reading server. Built with the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your reading collection with your friends and family. (by Kareadita)

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Kavita reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of Kavita. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-07.
  • Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2025
    I tried Cursor as I was excited it used Tree Maps for RAG. I tried it for 3 different medium asks on a medium sized project (https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita).

    I was extremely disappointed. It recreated enum files with the same values, tons of changes, overall I rolled back.

    I use copy/paste into ChatGPT/Claude a lot. I will stick with that. I control the scope, I control what I copy or how I take the solutions.

    I stand by my belief that AI cannot work on medium to large codebases. I know we see vibe coding as a trend, but those are usually greenfield applications.

  • Kavita Reader
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2025
  • KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Mar 2025
    If anyone is interested in helping Kavita, an open source self hosted reading software, finish off the Koreader Sync support, please take a look at this PR. It's 90% complete and just needs some finishing polish. The contributor got busy and hasn't returned for some time.

    https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/pull/3311

  • Ask HN: Are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2025
  • Foliate: Read e-books in style, navigate with ease
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jul 2024
    I think Calibre advocates forgot what it's like to setup it for the first time and what a messy ugly process it is for new timers. A containerized version needs VNC access to set it up and perform GUI un-intuitive interface UI actions https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-calibre/#applicati...

    I've used https://www.kavitareader.com/ but it's not perfect either, this space could be "disrupted" by a Plex like product with opensource + licensed offerings but the target market is pretty small I think.

  • Best .NET Core API project for learning?
    9 projects | /r/dotnet | 4 Dec 2023
  • Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
  • Welcome to the Bug Bash!
    1 project | /r/KavitaManga | 6 Nov 2023
    Browse the Issue Tracker: Visit our bug tracker @ https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/issues to find a list of open issues tagged specifically for the Bug Bash. You'll find a variety of tasks, from beginner-friendly to advanced.
  • v0.7.9 - Customization
    1 project | /r/KavitaManga | 22 Oct 2023
  • Update Script for Kavita
    1 project | /r/KavitaManga | 21 Sep 2023
    #! /bin/bash installFolder="/opt/Kavita" # defines the folder where Kavita is installed backupFolder="/opt/KavitaBackup" # defines the backup folder for kavita kavitaUser="kavita" # defines the kavita service user kavitaGroup="kavita" # defines the kavita service group architecture="kavita-linux-x64.tar.gz" # options are: # kavita-linux-x64.tar.gz # kavita-linux-arm.tar.gz # kavita-linux-arm64.tar.gz if [ ! -d $installFolder ] then echo "KAVITA FOLDER IS MISSING!!" exit 1 fi cd /tmp if [ -r $architecture ] then echo "Kavita already present - extracting now!" tar -xzf $architecture else echo "Downloading latest Kavita from GitHub" wget https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita/releases/latest/download/$architecture echo "extracting now!" tar -xzf $architecture fi if [ ! -d Kavita ] then echo "Something went wrong downloading or extracting" exit 1 fi echo "Stopping Kavita service" systemctl stop kavita.service if [ -d $backupFolder ] then echo "Deleting old KavitaBackup" rm -r $backupFolder fi echo "Creating new Kavita backup" cp -r $installFolder/config $backupFolder echo "Deleting Kavita" rm -r $installFolder echo "Installing new Kavita" cp -r /tmp/Kavita $installFolder echo "Deleting default config" rm -r $installFolder/config echo "Moving old config into install folder" cp -r $backupFolder $installFolder/config echo "CHOWN Kavita folder to kavita user and group" chown -R $kavitaUser:$kavitaGroup $installFolder echo "Make Kavita executable" chmod +x $installFolder/Kavita echo "Launch Kavita" systemctl start kavita.service echo "Cleaning up downloaded files" rm -r Kavita rm $architecture echo "Update process finished :)"
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Kareadita/Kavita is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.

Kavita is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of Kavita is C#.


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