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Great stuff, has been meaning to create an online library of my burgeoning ebooks collections for quite som time now, this is exactly what the doctors ordered and it's based on Postgres.

Just wondering about the encrypted collection of ebooks from Kindle for example. Are these ebooks supported and does it only supports metadata, what about the content search for these ebooks?




So, Colibri is intended to be a companion to Calibre, maybe do like 80% of what it does, but not all of it. Also, I want Colibri's core to have a fully clean collar: It handles your personal books, but will not be able to automatically de-DRM books and such. However, the way book assets work, you're of course free to just attach an encrypted AZW3 file to a book!

> Are these ebooks supported and does it only supports metadata, what about the content search for these ebooks?

Have you seen https://github.com/colibri-hq/colibri/issues/45? Content search is planned, but requires access to a book's text content, obviously. My recommendation would be to use Calibre to strip DRM and convert the books to epub/mobi files, and import those to Colibri; this has the general benefit of ensuring access to content you bought without depending on Amazon's good will :-)




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