I’ve seen here people asking for audio books support in Plex, but it would be awseome if it would also support e-books. Something like Calibre - would be amazing to have access to my books (and all the other media) in one place from anywhere.
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I came to this forum to specifically request that precise feature. I currently use Calibre to organize my books, copying those I want to read on my iPhone and iPad over to iBooks, which just pain sucks for organization.
I would love it if Plex became a one-stop shop to replace iTunes completely, giving me the same quality of ebook reading that it’s done with movies and television.
another vote for ebooks
Yet another vote. I care much less about viewing, more about organizing. I’d love to be able to search books by author or genre via Plex on my iPhone or iPad, then when I find the book I want, download it to iBooks on the advice to read. I current use Ubooquity which allows me to kind of search then “Open In” iBooks, but the interface and search is pretty bad.
This, too, has been asked for before and Plex has been dead silent about it.
Plex has not really added anything truly new for a VERY long time and it is doubtful that we will see true newness in the future.
However I do think it “might” be possible that both audiobooks and e-books could be supported through a Plex channel of some kind but if that were possible I kind of think it would have been already done as well.
Plex appears convinced that “reading” by any form of book is only for the lesser animals and therefore unsuitable for the higher realms Plex exists in. But for me and my daughter and granddaughters we have discovered that the pictures conjured up in books are better that anything a movie can reproduce.
I would like Plex to even have the ability to render e-books or other text documents as audio. The Amazon Echo can do that VERY well so it can’t be that hard.
I very much doubt we will ever see any of this but it never hurts to have hope no matter how far fetched that hope is.
Hmmm, I would like to see better audiobook support first.
Just do ebook support first. then worry about audio.book down the road
to be honest, i thought it already could do the ebook thing. thats why i was here, looking at how to do an ebook channel.
Would love e-book support, or even some simple pdf support. It would be great for those of us in grad school that have papers all over the place that we are researching. Something simple, like a kindle layout within the Plex ecosystem, would be perfect. I have about 400 books, plus 100s of articles, plus other stuff, that I would love to keep someplace accessible.
Being able to store/access all of that material, along with my wife’s constant reading on the train, plus all of my daughter’s books, and I would pretty much never not be on Plex.
@lukejr said:
Hmmm, I would like to see better audiobook support first.
Or maybe just any audiobook support.
This, I believe, simple request, (namely just FF/RW/Resume) has been asked for literality for years and Plex has chosen to do nothing about it. So do not expect it to appear within the next decade.
Of course you never know and Plex could screw up and include this, much wanted by many, feature tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year, or next century. Of course Plex itself will probably not be around even by the end of this decade, as technology is evolving too fast, so any time frame past five years is probably out of the question.
I’m looking forward to movies and audio beamed directly into the brain. That would be safe, right?
BTW: I believe that basic audiobook support would be pretty trivial as far as just correctly playing them BUT ebook support is quite a bit more complex due to the need to decode and display formats and systems that Plex cannot already display. But both would be of good value for users.
@Elijah_Baley said:
BTW: I believe that basic audiobook support would be pretty trivial as far as just correctly playing them BUT ebook support is quite a bit more complex due to the need to decode and display formats and systems that Plex cannot already display. But both would be of good value for users.
Now why couldn’t Plex work with someone like, say, Ubooquity, who has the decoding capabilities, but lacks the interface and non-web-based server option? (this coming from a non-techy person. I’m an accountant, so I literally know squat about this stuff). I want to use Ubooquity, but it’s too tempermental and the format isn’t great for folks like me who are intimidated by DOS-looking websites. It just blows my mind that it’s 2016 and no one has anything half-accessible for the average person for e-books.
Wonder if Plex team even considered such a request 
Oh I see it’s on the list:
@Karmalakas said:
Wonder if Plex team even considered such a requestOh I see it’s on the list:
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/214180/top-feature-requests
For people who aren’t a Plex Pass subscriber, can you copy the list of what they are working on and paste it here?
@tramp78 said:
For people who aren’t a Plex Pass subscriber, can you copy the list of what they are working on and paste it here?
It’s not a list of what is being worked on, it’s simply a compiled list of the most popular feature requests.
@adamskoog said:
@tramp78 said:
For people who aren’t a Plex Pass subscriber, can you copy the list of what they are working on and paste it here?
It’s not a list of what is being worked on, it’s simply a compiled list of the most popular feature requests.
Yeah, I guess it would be asking too much for us to actually know what they are working on. 
Bumping this as i would like a place to do this other than google drive.
I would be happy if they would add the ability to remember where you are in a “song” then I could use the music library as an audio book function. Strangely, if you ain Plex at a bunch of audio books it can sometimes find the author picture and book covers.
@tramp78 said:
I would be happy if they would add the ability to remember where you are in a “song” then I could use the music library as an audio book function. Strangely, if you ain Plex at a bunch of audio books it can sometimes find the author picture and book covers.
That already exists. In the advanced setting for an audio library there is a setting called “Store track progress” that, if checked, causes the server to remember the location in audio files. It is a bit unreliable at times and I think it does not work well on some clients but it is there.
Plex does not remember where you are in a multifile book but it does remember where you are in a single audio file and offers to resume.
Also on many clients (at least I know this works on the Roku players) you can simply rename mp3 files to mp4 or m4v and Plex will threat them as video files with no video track. I use m4v so I can readily tell whic files are ones I have renamed as I use m4v for nothing else.
If you do that you can then place them in a TV type library with “local media assets” as the indexer and name and structure a multifile book as a TV show and the Plex remembers everything and can even be set for continuous play if you so wish.
If you do that just be sure that the files are structures and name exactly as if they were a regular TV show.
Something like:
AudioBook-Shows <— The library points here
---------Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo <— This folder holds the season folder
------------------Season 01 <— (Plex likes is best if you conform to the standard structure)
-------------------------Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo - s01e01 - Prolog.ext
-------------------------Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo - s01e02 - Chapter 1.ext
-------------------------And so on for the rest of the episodes
The sXXeYY naming is simply to let Plex handle the book like a TV show.
I tested that and it works fine but I do NOT use Plex for my audiobooks as I discovered that a small computer (cost me less than $100.00) running MediaMonkey with its audio fed into my house system and controlled via tablets running MMRemote works much better for me and is a LOT less trouble to maintain.
Are plex planning go get e-book support?
Would be awesome. E-Books, Papers, and PDF
Cheers!
9Yep, another shout out for ebooks
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