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Alert: I am talking about a selfhosted aplication. Probably I need another post to explain was selfhosting is.

I was holiding back on deploying Booklore because of high RAM consumption. However after the drama unfolded, I felt curious to try Grimmory.

I am not sure what made me curious. I was using Calibre-Web-Automated and it worked fine, but I am so happy I did the change. Specially, the integration with Kobo and Hardcover is amazing, something I really wasn’t able to make work properly before.

But what is Grimmory? Grimmory is a selfhosted book digital library for your epubs and the like.

You map or upload your files and helps you with metadata tagging, organization, etc.
Now, there is a couple of things vs CWA that I really like about:

1. You can edit the metadata directly in your files. previously calibre was keeping all this information in it’s database.
   Is actually not fully recommended to go this way, but I press that option and I am so happy that I do not dependend only on my DataBase to be correct, as the files hold all the information.
   Metadata pulling from Goodreads and Hardcover works really well.
2. It handles comics (cbz), books (epub) and audiobooks (mp3). Calibre-web had a bit of a limitation with comics, and I required Komga to be deployed in paralel. It did have no audiobooks, but I did not use this anyway.
   This means that finally I could deploy Kobo integration for both comics and epubs. That has been working great so far.
3. With hardcover integration, I can sync my reading and see my stats. It’s freaking awesome and has motivated me to read so much in the last days.

Honestly, it has all been working flawlessly, and I felt compelled to do this post. My kudos to the team that developed and kept what was needed of Booklore to achieve this.