It interests me very much!!
+1
I ´ve been using Plex from the beginning, many many years ago. This feature has been requested from the beginning too, and sincerely, I know its not gonna happen. I surrended and use this:
mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=232582
It´s like Ubooquity, but better.
@lynxai said:
I ´ve been using Plex from the beginning, many many years ago. This feature has been requested from the beginning too, and sincerely, I know its not gonna happen. I surrended and use this:mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=232582
It´s like Ubooquity, but better.
I see you’re on the thread from 2 years ago 
I’ve been using Ubooquity in the meantime. Why do you say this is better?
@telecart said:
@lynxai said:
I ´ve been using Plex from the beginning, many many years ago. This feature has been requested from the beginning too, and sincerely, I know its not gonna happen. I surrended and use this:mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=232582
It´s like Ubooquity, but better.
I see you’re on the thread from 2 years ago
I want to know as well.
Been using Ubooquity for a couple of years now and haven’t found anything that is actually better. The lack of a server side marked read status has lead me to trying other options (ComicCafe and Comic Streamer) but I always come back to the greatness that is Ubooquity since it’s the only thing still being actively developed that does this job.
These days I’m just using Ubooquity and a google spreadsheet to keep track of where I’m at.
I also still use Ubooquity as my primary Comics database. I use Calibre as my primary eBook database. But I have setup the Plex Comic Reader Channel, which actually works pretty well just for Comic archives ( https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/216363/rel-comicreader-read-comic-archives-with-plex-cbz-cbr-cb7 ). At least as far as serving them goes. It actually functions as a decent Reader on my Tablets, as well. There’s no Metadata, and it doesn’t track usage, but to me it illustrates how relatively easy Plex could go about integrating Comics into their system. And as Plex has access to write to their database, tracking which comics have been read would not be terribly difficult to add to that system, if they were to decide to implement Comics into their server system. Unfortunately eBooks (epub, mobi, etc…) are a different story, as they would require new systems to be added to plex, but plex already has the ability to read and display the image formats used to create a comic archive. All they really need to do is spend a little time to add it, and make it look pretty.
@Budwyzer said:
I want to know as well.
Been using Ubooquity for a couple of years now and haven’t found anything that is actually better. The lack of a server side marked read status has lead me to trying other options (ComicCafe and Comic Streamer) but I always come back to the greatness that is Ubooquity since it’s the only thing still being actively developed that does this job.
These days I’m just using Ubooquity and a google spreadsheet to keep track of where I’m at.
Well, “Readings” for Calibre has indeed read status, multiple ways to order comics, custom columns support (you can arrange or search by series and events, example: I have Spiderman main series and Civil War event in a custom colums, dont need to duplicate comics), multiple users support and, not important but its looks pretty nice.
@lynxai said:
@Budwyzer said:
I want to know as well.
Been using Ubooquity for a couple of years now and haven’t found anything that is actually better. The lack of a server side marked read status has lead me to trying other options (ComicCafe and Comic Streamer) but I always come back to the greatness that is Ubooquity since it’s the only thing still being actively developed that does this job.
These days I’m just using Ubooquity and a google spreadsheet to keep track of where I’m at.
Well, “Readings” for Calibre has indeed read status, multiple ways to order comics, custom columns support (you can arrange or search by series and events, example: I have Spiderman main series and Civil War event in a custom colums, dont need to duplicate comics), multiple users support and, not important but its looks pretty nice.
It’s mentioned as a web interface, but because of the language I can’t tell if that’s because it is actually through a web browser or just because it is served over the web. Ubooquity being accessible through any web browser makes it nice for me, I read most of my comics at my PC during work. XD
It is served over the web, you can read everywhere.
I would sooooo… Like to have a comics/book reader in plex… Be great if it handled audio books also (for metadata I mean)
+1 - me too
+1 ebook reader on Plex server that would be a dream. I would have a centralised place for all my media.
+1 Don’t know how to vote, but please listen
Correction: Vote by pressing “like” on the first post.
+1 for ebook support on server
Any news about this feature?
+1 for me
And one suggestion to simplify the implementation of this feature is to be able to read Calibre folders Library (Calibre folders-trees, including files: metadata.db and metadata_db_prefs_backup.json). Of course, both apps should be able to access the shared books folders (PLEX and Calibre).
So a way to implement this feature is to let Calibre manage books libraries, let PLEX sharing these Library, and users read books.
+1 for me as well.
Adding the ability to read epubs, pdf, html, and mobi books would be a definite plus along with audiobooks and support from Goodreads and IBDB. Calibre Integration would be huge!
While I don’t care about comics personally, there are many here that do so having a reading library, a comic library and an audiobook library would be key features that would bring Plex to becoming a media solution more than just a home theater solution.
I see from the very start people putting this idea down and that is simply moronic. The “focus on media” is what they cry, but they miss the point that media started as drawings on cave walls and that digital media includes movies, TV, etc. It is the same people who would have argued against music saying it is not multimedia, etc…
To the naysayers, I say Bah! Integrate all media into a media server. Buy a small reading app and integrate it into Plex. Create a bridge to a tool that can do it like Calibre or media monkey.
If you listen to music, why not audiobooks? Both are audio with albums and tracks. We always want to start where we left off and Alexa does that for me from my Amazon library.
Bottom line - Plex is a Media server and Audiobooks, comics, and ebooks are al media worthy of consideration.
@MediaJunkie said:
To be fair you should include at least one option in your poll for people not interested in reader support.I for one, wouldn’t be interested at all and have the Plex team rather focus on media support.
So don’t upvote it…that’s literally how this works.
Plex is a Media server. Books are Media, if some of you weren’t aware. When I want to consume some type of media, it could be music, video, or text. I use my Kindle for books that I’ve purchased from Amazon, but it’s decisively harder to find a good all-around Comic reader. I ended up buying an iPad and I use ComicFlow, but in order to get the books to the iPad I have to connect it to my computer and drag-and-drop the files to the device, in iTunes. It’s ridiculously aged technology. Even once I have the books on the device, there’s no way to keep track of what I’ve read outside of that app – I can only now use my iPad to read comics if I want to easily continue where I left off.
Plex has the capability to do this kind of thing…organization of media, storage of metadata and current-placement, and dissemination of the files as-needed. Think of Comics/Books as Movies that take up way less space. Instead of keeping track of the time placement in the movie that the user was last at, you just need the page.
@hotleadsingerguy: why not use comicrack instead? That way you can
wirelessly sync
je vote pour
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