Jelu - is a Self-hosted Book Tracker for Avid Readers

Jelu is a free, open-source, self-hosted book tracker designed to manage your read, reading, and to-read lists. Acting as a personal Goodreads alternative, it ensures data control and security by housing all data in a single-file database. Jelu also offers an API for seamless integration with third-party tools and services.

Features

• track read books so you don't have to remember everything, and view your history (by year and month)
• manage to-read list
• Import history (from goodreads via csv export or a file with a list of ISBNs, one by line)
• Export your data in a csv file
• Import single books manually or automatically via online search (through title, authors or isbn)
• Mark books as currently reading, finished or dropped
• Books can be tagged and a tag page can display all books with that tag
• You can use tags to create custom shelves
• Links to third party providers are fetched online (google books, amazon, goodreads, librarythings) or computed from those providers id you could enter manually.
• Author page with author detail and books from this author
• Auto import author details from wikipedia
• Auto merge authors (to fix duplicates resulting from automatic imports for example)
• Provide embed code snippets so that books can be tracked in other sites, blogs or even markdown notes/journal
• Provide some stats about your readings
• Multi user support (ldap login, proxy authentication, see other user libraries)
• provides an API
• Write reviews and share them, see the reviews of other users on your instance
• Fallback metadata providers (see official doc for configuration)
• Metadata import from epub or opf files
• Isbn scanning via camera on mobile

How to use?

• Import your existing history if you have a Goodreads account
• Start recording your read books
• Add books you want to read
• Edit tags, books, import and change covers (either from a file on disk or from a url) ...

Install using Docker Compose

You can install the app easily using Docker Compose by running this file with docker-compose up -d

version: '3.3'
services:
  jelu:
    image: wabayang/jelu
    container_name: jelu
    volumes:
      - ~/jelu/config:/config
      - ~/jelu/database:/database
      - ~/jelu/files/images:/files/images
      - ~/jelu/files/imports:/files/imports
      - /etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
    ports:
      - 11111:11111
    restart: unless-stopped

License

MIT License

Resources

• Source-code and download

GitHub - bayang/jelu: Self hosted read and to-read list book tracker

Self hosted read and to-read list book tracker. Contribute to bayang/jelu development by creating an account on GitHub.

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