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🟢 Easy
SaaS cost 12€/mo Kindle Unlimited: $11.99/mo. Audible: $14.95/mo. Plus you don't own the books.
Self-host cost 2€/mo Part of existing VPS (~225 MB RAM). Storage: ~€0.02/GB on VPS disk.
You save €120/yr Pays back: 1st month
Time Investment
Initial Setup 2h Docker compose, Calibre library setup, OPDS feed, reverse proxy
Monthly Maintenance 0.5h/mo Metadata fetching fixes (patches needed for some providers), Docker updates
Risks & Trade-offs
- ⚠️ Some metadata providers need manual patches (comicvine, lubimyczytac)
- ⚠️ DRM removal requires additional tools (not included)
- ⚠️ Large libraries (>10K books) may slow down search
🐕We run this:Personal library with OPDS feed for PocketBook. Deployed on the same VPS.
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