![]() ![]() Of note: Neither ComicRack, nor Kuboo are being actively developed nor supported, and Ubooquity hasn't had an update in at least 2 years (thought the Dev maintains he's working on it.) If I were just getting started today I'd probably just bypass Ubooqity and go with something like Kavita (as it also has an eBook reader built in) with Mylar as the back end for metadata and library management.YACReader offers you the best way to read and manage your digital comics. I've definitely gotten my money's worth out of it. I like the 10" size because the pages displayed will be roughly similar to an actual comics page in a floppy monthly or Trade Paperback. I personally don't love reading comics pages (especially double page spreads) in my horizontal monitor so i paid <$150 about 3 years ago for a Lenovo 10" tablet. This last part is completely optional as Ubooquity can be accessed via any browser. It's similar experience to ComiXology or Marvel Unlimited, but with less features as it was developed by a single person and is given away for free. It'll even keep track of whether or not you've accessed/read files. Kuboo gives you the option to download to the local storage of the device or just "stream" files as you read them. Cheap 10" Android tablet with Kuboo app logged into my Ubooquity instance for reading.I also know that CR has a library organizer plugin, but when I experimented with it, it nearly trashed my carefully composed directory structure, so I've just left it alone. I know there are workflows with things like Mylar for downloading/scraping/organizing, but I don't have any experience with that. I use this to convert to my preferred format (CBZ for metadata reasons) scraping/adding metadata via the ComicVineScraper plugin. Laptop (must be Windows) hosts an instance of ComicRack with the library pointed to the SMB Comics shared directory.If you have metadata in the files Ubooquity can also show that rather than the filenames. Ubuntu doesn't organize your library, only displays it, so this matters more than it would with something like Plex. ![]() My comics are all named and sorted according to the way that made the most sense for me when I set up the library (Comics>Publisher>Series>Comic 001 (2022).cbz). I host the Ubooquity server on this device and point to the comics directory (could also be a network/shared drive and work equally well). Desktop (Ubuntu, but could be Windows) that has a ~555 GB comics directory (which is also shared via samba).All of those options would give you a similar feeling to what you experienced with Plex, albeit without the metadata element that you get with Plex. I have also played around with Komga, Kavita, and YACReader/Library. I use Ubooquity to host and consume comics with ComicRack as a back end for metadata/conversion/library management. There are a couple of more modern ways to deal with a remote library. but then i can also setup a shared library with SQL? how crazy. looks like i could do everything on the server and just share out the library and open it on my laptop. looks like all the library data sits in an. it looks like there is away to do both ways. but everything i see in the how-to's just shows people using like an E:\ drive or second local hard drive to store all that stuff.ĮDIT: i was just looking through the 6th edition manual off this reddit page. Suggestions? comments? thoughts? i imagine most people got SMB shares on some external storage out there. I just run everything through my laptop and use the share. EDIT: this option does not use Remote Library or Comic Rack at all on the server. Option 2: i do everything from my laptop, map the drive to my comics share, deal with everything being a tad slow but know that everything is managed by my laptop. EDIT: looks like Remote Library is more for sharing with friends over the internet - not over the LAN. anytime i want to make changes i just rdp into the box and do it. then from my laptop i just add a remote library. Option 1: i jump on the server, install comic rack, build the library and do all my organization on the server. but im curious cuz it looks like i have 2 options. got like ~185 GB of comics on this share. i currently have a drobo5n with shares on it. So backstory - i was reading the comic rack manual and i just got done reading the organizer pdf last night. i was always against the itunes approach but a couple years back i got really into plex and i love it. i dont know when the last time i checked but this comic rack stuff has gotten intense. So i decided to circle back around to the comic world recently. ![]()
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