Implement eBook requests

1.1K votes

Readarr from the -Arr team is slowly shaping up and other alternatives such as LazyLibrarian have been available for a while.

While I think it would make most sense to focus on the implementation of Readarr, it is still far from finished.

It would be nice to first implement the request type without necessarily having the backends implemented yet, and use GoodReads (or whichever "database" there is for books really) for the references.

This would already allow me to "take" requests and fulfill them manually until a backend would be implemented

(p.s. i swear I made a request for this but I cannot find it using search, not sure where it went. Please delete it if you can find the original)

Planned Suggested by: Flying Sausages (14 Sep, '20) • Upvoted: yesterday • Comments: 17

Comments: 17

31 Aug, '20
flying_sausages Merged
Readarr is in development, and it would be nice to already start adding "Books" as a media type that is requestable. Goodreads is an overall good metadata aggregator that could serve well for this manner.

My personal use-case would already benefit from not having to get ISBNs from my users in chats.
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15 Sep, '20
Jamie Rees Admin
"eBook support" (suggested by flying_sausages on 2020-08-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Sep, '20
Protektor
You should also consider this because Jellyfin has full ebook support.
10 Jan, '21
Maarten
Yeeessss! Thank you Jamie. And all the contributers.
13 Jan, '21
David Muñoz
Will this support lazy librarian?
15 Jan, '21
SmithOnline
Yes please which sends to readarr
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15 Jan, '21
SmithOnline
and LazyLibrarian support
06 Feb, '21
mike
I think the focus should be on supporting readarr. While lazy librarian is more feature filled, its also a nightmare to use. Once readarr has another couple years under its belt im sure it will surpass lazy librarian and support for it in ombi will also encourage development.
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16 Feb, '21
Flath
This would be great, if there would be a way for each title to be approved for E/Audiobook that would be even better IMO
06 Mar, '21
Craig
Is this still being worked on?
25 Apr, '21
Shane
This could probably make use of libgen.is too! That has been the most reliable site I have found for finding and downloading books (particularly textbooks).
06 May, '21
Rutskiuk
LazyLibrarian would be preferable as it is stable and well supported by the devs
24 May, '21
Lewis
Goodreads are no longer accepting new API registrations with a plan to phase out (maybe replace?) the API over the next year or so. Google books may be a better repository of metadata going forward.
19 Jun, '21
MAR
I'm really looking forward to this! Right now ebooks are the only type of media that I need to manually open anything other than Ombi to request
09 Aug, '21
Ciaran
Is there any movement on this? Do we have any details about this update yet? Not being pushy just curious if I've missed anything. Take your time if not! :)
21 Sep, '21
Jamie Rees Admin
"Mylar3 Integration" (suggested by quickwhips on 2021-08-15), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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27 Sep, '21
Jamie Rees Admin
So to give an update on this. This is not planned in the short term. Short term we are reworking some of the music side of things so there is a better experience in Ombi.

Adding another different media type into Ombi is no small feat, and I want to make sure it's done right and not half baked.
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