[headhasthoughts]

You both should do the bare minimum amount of research before asking these questions or insulting the project. It would take you one whole click to find the server code.

https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum-Server

[Gormo]

I guess I just don't understand why a desktop application intended to read e-books would need a remote server in the first place.

I've already got my e-book library on my local drive, and synced to my own storage server with NextCloud -- why do I need my desktop e-reader application to force me to use a separate, parallel server solution?

And even if I were to self-host, the UI does not seem to expose any way to point the frontend client at my own server instance.

[mathgeek]

It’s designed as a platform, not specifically a reader.

> It's not just an e-book reader. With Librum, you can manage your own online library and access it from any device anytime, anywhere.

Different strokes for different folks as you seem to already have a solution to sync your own library.

[j45]

It seems to replace what the kindle platform would do

Multiple users might allow that for friends and family

It’s easier to ask “ what else could this mean” in a positive way and assume that it doesn’t have to make sense to one perspective to make sense for everyone.

Calibre for example doesn’t seem to do the multi device access/sync well

[Double_a_92]

That reminds me of that Dropbox discussion, where some guy said it's not worth it because he can easily replace it with some FTP server.

[its-summertime]

The client did not seem to have a way of specifying which server to use, so that seems irrelevant.

[DavidLazarescu]

The client has a way to specify what server to use. That is described at the bottom of this file: https://github.com/Librum-Reader/Librum-Server/blob/main/sel...

It will be in the Server’s readme very soon.

[midasz]

Haven't tried to install it myself but was looking through the git repo for this exact info. Just do it like every other project, either let the user configure it in the frontend through config or make it an environment variable.

[moss2]

I looked for any mention of hosting your own server on the repo's readme and could not find it. This is not readily available information so stop shaming people for not finding it.

But thank you for sharing the link that was helpful

[j45]

The second paragraph seems to address this

“ With Librum, you can manage your own online library and access it from any device anytime, anywhere. It has features like note-taking, bookmarking, and highlighting, while offering customization to make it as personal as you want!”

It is very clearly called a platform.