Bookshelves

Bookshelves is a web application to handle eBooks, comics/mangas and audiobooks. Powered by Laravel.

• bookshelves-project: Bookshelves project repository
• demo.bookshelves.ink: demo
• bookshelves-documentation.netlify.app: documentation from bookshelves-project/bookshelves-docs

Features

• All your books in one place, parsed by kiwilan/php-ebook
  • Audiobooks: .mp3, .m4b
  • Comics/Mangas: .cb7, .cba, .cbr, .cbt, .cbz
  • eBooks: .epub, .pdf
• Search engine with Meilisearch
• OPDS feed powered by kiwilan/php-opds
• Read eBooks, comics/mangas and listen audiobooks
• Admin panel made by filament
  • Libraries management
  • Users management
• SSR option powered by inertia

Roadmap

• Add Docker installation option
• Add Plex-like solution
• Add tests
• find duplicate authors
• find duplicates series like A comme Association (multiple authors)
• Read ebook in browser
• Read comic in browser
• Read audiobook in browser
• Authentication

Setup

Download dependencies

composer i
pnpm i

Create .env file

cp .env.example .env

Generate application key

php artisan key:generate

Create symbolic link for storage

php artisan storage:link

Migrate database with seeders

php artisan migrate:fresh --seed

Build assets

pnpm build

Now you can serve application

php artisan serve

Bookshelves is now available at http://localhost:8000 and you can access to the admin panel at http://localhost:8000/admin.

Environment values

• APP_URL: Application URL
• VITE_SSR_PORT: Port for SSR, default is 13714 (only used in production, if you use SSR)
• SCOUT_DRIVER: Search engine driver, default is collection depends of Laravel Scout. Bookshelves use meilisearch driver.
• CLOCKWORK_ENABLE: Enable or disable Clockwork, default is false (debug tool)
• BOOKSHELVES_SUPER_ADMIN_EMAIL: Super admin email, used to create the first user
• BOOKSHELVES_SUPER_ADMIN_PASSWORD: Super admin password, used to create the first user
• BOOKSHELVES_ANALYZER_ENGINE: Analyzer engine, default is native (native or scout)
• BOOKSHELVES_ANALYZER_DEBUG: Analyzer debug mode, default is false (print a JSON file for each book analyzed)
• BOOKSHELVES_IMAGE_CONVERSION: Image conversion engine, default is false (convert covers to different sizes)
• BOOKSHELVES_API_WIKIPEDIA: use Wikipedia API to get author information and photos, default is true

Add librairies

You have two solutions to create libraries: create a JSON file or use the admin panel (you can add libraries even if you use JSON file).

Admin panel

Connect to the admin panel at http://localhost:8000/admin with the default credentials defined in .env file (BOOKSHELVES_SUPER_ADMIN_EMAIL and BOOKSHELVES_SUPER_ADMIN_PASSWORD).

Go to the admin panel at http://localhost:8000/admin, find the Libraries entry in the sidebar and click on New library.

• Name is a label for your library
• Type is a select with audiobook, book and comic_manga values.
• Path is absolute path to your library
• Slug is defined automatically from the name field
• Enabled is a checkbox to enable or disable the library
• Path is valid is a read-only field to check if the path is valid (automatically checked when you save the library)

JSON file

Create a libraries.json file from libraries-template.json.

cp libraries-template.json libraries.json

And add your books libraries in libraries.json.

• name: Library name, you can use any label
• type: LibraryTypeEnum (audiobook, book, comic_manga)
• path: Absolute path to your library
• is_enabled: Optional, to enable or disable the library

[
    {
        "name": "My audiobooks",
        "type": "audiobook", // LibraryTypeEnum: audiobook, book, `comic_manga`
        "path": "/absolute/path/to",
        "is_enabled": true // optional, to enable or disable the library
    }
    // ...
]

And when you execute the analyze command with --fresh option, Bookshelves will create database entries for each library and will scan books.

Usage

Analyze

Execute analyze command to analyze books and create database entries.

• -f|--fresh option for fresh mode (delete all books before analyze)
• -l|--limit option for limit mode (limit the number of books to analyze)

php artisan bookshelves:analyze -f

To get full documentation, you can read Bookshelves documentation.

Preview

Execute scan command to get a preview of scannable books (libraries have to be created).

• -v option for verbose mode

php artisan bookshelves:scan

Tests

Create a .env.testing file

cp .env.testing.example .env.testing

Create key for testing

php artisan key:generate --env=testing

Run tests

composer test

Credits

• laravel for a powerful framework
• filament for a so efficient admin panel
• spatie for a lot of amazing packages
• tailwindcss for a so easy to use CSS framework
• vue for a so amazing JavaScript framework
• inertia for a so efficient way to build modern monolithic applications
• meilisearch for a fast and relevant search engine
• kiwilan/php-ebook for a PHP eBook parser
• kiwilan/php-opds for a PHP OPDS feed generator
• ewilan-riviere author of Bookshelves

License

The Bookshelves is open-sourced software licensed under the BSD 2-Clause License.