# Plex for books?

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-books/807980>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Tags:** library-management\
**Created:** [August 27, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-books/807980 "2022-08-27T22:37:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![bg3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@bg3](https://forums.plex.tv/u/bg3)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-books/807980/1 "2022-08-27T22:37:18Z")

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Really enjoy using Plex to watch TV, movies, and listen to music. Also have enjoyed using PlexAMP. Wondering if the Plex team would consider building a server/client solution for ebooks and PDFs to let you host a documentation library on a server to view on an iPad, iPhone, and computer client at home or on the road? Seems like maybe could be a fun experiment in the vein of PlexAMP. Thanks for your time.

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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-books/807980/2 "2022-08-27T22:39:25Z")

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There’s a long standing suggestion to add support for books and similar media. Keep in mind that Plexamp was building on existing/supported media types (music) – adding something entirely new is quite a step.

> [@PLEXREADER: Comics, Books, PDFs](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexreader-comics-books-pdfs/26684):
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> PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HIT THE 'VOTE' BUTTON TO VOTE FOR THIS. PLEXREADER, PLEXSTORE, PLEXSYNC!A lot of people use there tablets as E-Readers It would be awesome if plex could free up much needed disk space by hosting these files. select a zip, rar, epub, pdf,or other book file type and it downloads to you device. open using a plex made Ereader or select a Reader of your choice. each time you select a new book it can download and while your reading it plex deletes the previously selected book unl…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2022, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-for-books/807980/3 "2022-11-25T22:40:20Z")

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