Yep! :)
Would be fantastic if comicrack let you 1) share over internet, 2) have multiple users, 3) work in linux..
Or... You know... Have Plex do it since it's already got the infrastructure for it all, and have any reader connect to it as a client.
If there was only a place where such a request could be voted on...
If i could use the plex app to stream comic books to my ipad, i would die of sheer joy.
i like the idea of being able to share downloaded magazines via Plex. seems like adding a reader is a logical step.
I see a lot of posts saying Calibre already does this.
It DOES not. Calibre is a single user application with security flaws. You can host the books with OPDS but guess what happens when you try to connect to the library with a remote client? ■■■■ breaks, and breaks badly. It doesn't matter if no one else is using the library at the same time.
Comicrack lets you share your library. Comicrack is closed source, it has a very annoying nag screen, the android app is overpriced, and there's no *nux version.
I see a lot of posts saying Calibre already does this.
It DOES not. Calibre is a single user application with security flaws. You can host the books with OPDS but guess what happens when you try to connect to the library with a remote client? ■■■■ breaks, and breaks badly. It doesn't matter if no one else is using the library at the same time.
Comicrack lets you share your library. Comicrack is closed source, it has a very annoying nag screen, the android app is overpriced, and there's no *nux version.
Yes. In addition, OPDS for comics isn't fun to use. Ubooquity is closer to how it should be.
I’d love to use Plex to read comics. Keeping track of pulled/collected/read issues is a pain right now, as is using Dropbox as in intermediary server.
I for one would put another donation to the plex team of minimum £20 I know we all pay or have paid for lifetime memberships. But would think a bounty system for developing a tied in implementation for comic books/pdf/epub. Could be worth it for a developer. Who would right now stump up bounty money for this??!!
@kerbys In the immortal words of John Sheridan, Abso-fraggin’-lutely!
Surely this is something we could do with other features out of the natural feature set?
Add books please !
I have a huge comic and magazine collection stored on my computer and I am tethered to it to read, i hate having to constantly load things to my devices to enjoy it. I want the simplicity and ease the Plex gives to my media to my comics. I want them to be stored on my computer, yet pull up my Plex page anywhere on any computer and just read when I want, then when I'm done reading, I can watch a episode of CSI or watch Iron Man 3 or the Dark Knight if I feel like it. All my media at my finger tips. If they could integrate comics, epub and better music integration, then Plex would be the end all be all MEDIA hub, lets be honest, comics, books and music are also media as well. Until then make mine Plex.
Please add an ereader to Plex, with cbz and cbr files included. Would attract a whole new crowd to Plex.
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This is a terribly ide. And how great projects die!
It's not what plex is for and would only bloat the project.
There is already projects which do this and has been mentioned by others in this thread. http://calibre-ebook.com/ is what you are looking for.
The ideas mentioned in this thread aren't possible with calibre, with plex we could do so much more-1
This is a terribly ide. And how great projects die!
It's not what plex is for and would only bloat the project.
There is already projects which do this and has been mentioned by others in this thread. http://calibre-ebook.com/ is what you are looking for.
The ideas mentioned in this thread aren't possible with calibre, with plex we could do so much more
And if plex adds this feature you don't have to use it if you don't want to...
Then the feature request should go to calibre.
And I do, because it will bloat plex as a whole.
I can name dozens of project that have become useless after including features which isn't their primary function. Rome burning anyone? It was the best cd burner of its time. But someone thought it was nice if you could rip dvd with it, and play the cd/dvd. and µtorrent, which was one of the best torrent programs for windows. Small and fast. Now it's an unholy abomination, unstable, big and useless. Why not add a media player to this program designed to download files?
I can come up with 100 features which could go in to plex but shouldn't. Wouldn't it be nice if they included a torrent program? Ripper for dvd/bluray. It could tweet what you are watching, or update your status on facebook. What if they included a browser so you could post to this very forum from inside plexapp, that would be convenient. What about a feature to include wishes for movies, which could direct you to amazon or another e-shop. Or since we already can see what our friends are watching from our library the next step could be a chat program.
Op would want to pay $2 for a plexreader. I'd pay $100 for keeping plexserver as it is. Include a better webplayer, include support for more codecs and devices, but don't include stuff that is not video related.
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This is a terribly ide. And how great projects die!
It's not what plex is for and would only bloat the project.
There is already projects which do this and has been mentioned by others in this thread. http://calibre-ebook.com/ is what you are looking for.
Op would want to pay $2 for a plexreader. I'd pay $100 for keeping plexserver as it is. Include a better webplayer, include support for more codecs and devices, but don't include stuff that is not video related.
He only use stupid examples to illustrate that he finds the comics and ebooks additions stupid. Even though I strongly disagree with MrFox as he doesn't seems to know that Plex is based on XBMC which as far I know supports comics already. So Plex could also supports comics but the dev did chose to remove that part for now. We are just waiting for them to add it back :)
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He only use stupid examples to illustrate that he finds the comics and ebooks additions stupid. Even though I strongly disagree with MrFox as he doesn't seems to know that Plex is based on XBMC which as far I know supports comics already. So Plex could also supports comics but the dev did chose to remove that part for now. We are just waiting for them to add it back :)
What you seem to not now is that it's only the plex desktop client which is based on xbmc kodi. All the other clients are not. So you need to implement a full pdf reader and comic book reader in all of them. Not to say anything about all the backend stuff that needs to go into the server itself.
