How many votes does it need to have before plex devs respond?
I mean I understand why this would be at a lower priority. There are not many people in the world that read books, comics, manga now a days. And the intersection between them and plex users looks even worse.
For this reason, I hoped plex developers would make an extensible system which developers like me could work on to create our own content type and everything that revolves around it. This would allow users in a niche to come together and develop thier own things. I mean if you guys are maintaining a server at least a fourth of would be developers.
As color readers is soon coming to the market a plexreader would be nice, onyx boox readers also seems to be running android with google store so installing the app would be easy. (seems some of them are fast enough to also play video content in the fastest mode with lower image quality so installing the regular plex app on those kind of readers should work)
Seven years and seven months since being requested, and I can promise itās still something weād really like! Hoping that this might be added some time in the future.
I absolutely second this.
I already use Plex to manage and use my media collection: Music, Films, TV Shows, Videos, Photos.
The only media type missing is Books!
I have a vast library of books. Technical and non-technical. Most have an ISBN number.
As the previous poster stated, the support is mixed and inconsistent. My books are mostly in PDF format, but increasingly epub is gaining traction and there are some other formats too.
It would be absolutely marvellous if Plex could integrate books as well. It would be a true media management solution.
This and issues caused to my database because of the server outage the other day are the last straws with PLEX. I installed Emby and so far itās a complete dream.
Iāve been checking this thread for so long wanting this feature get added. It would be nice to at least after all this time get a definitive answer of yes or no (obviously leaning towards no) at this point.
There are a lot of issues with building such a feature.
One issue for example is there is no proper metadata provider that works for all kinds of books. Even if there are, thier data misses a huge amounts of books/comics/mangas/magazines/etc
Hmmā¦ canāt seem to think of any other issues. Most of the issues are already solved in this space.
It could be also that Plex is thinking there are going to be Issues from a legal view point. Many of these publishing companies are predatory in nature when it comes to their property
I think we have to stop hoping that Plex will position itself in this area.
The Komga solution becomes downright excellent and the developer advances with at least 5 to 10 releases per month!!
