Book Reader

An organizer for your books that allows you to read them in your browser. With a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Currently only supports epub (cbz is almost impl. too) files.

My intention will be to make it Plex for Books.

TODO:

• Better Separation of books' Sections
• Utilize sqlite transactions for multi table changes.
• Implement database migrations
• Cache & Clear external searches for each task ran

Running/Building

To run and build the application you need to do the following:

1. Install Rust. It's used for coding this whole application.

2. Install Trunk. It's used for building the frontend.

   • Ensure a C Linker is installed - Lazy? sudo apt install build-essential will install all essentials including the linker

3. Add Wasm32 Target to Rust: rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown - Used for frontend

Git

Import the submodules

git submodule update --init

Backend:

Inside root folder execute these commands:

cargo run --bin books-backend

The server will now be hosted on 127.0.0.1:8084

Known Errors:

Error: could not find system library 'openssl' required by the 'openssl-sys' crate

• https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/issues/855#issuecomment-450057552

Frontend:

Execute one of these commands

To build:

cd crates/frontend
trunk build --public-url "/dist" -d "../../app/public/dist"

To build and watch:

cd crates/frontend
trunk watch --public-url "/dist" -d "../../app/public/dist"

Packaging

Packaging will store the frontend in to the reader executable and extract files when ran.

Frontend:

Execute this first

To build:

cd crates/frontend
trunk build --release --public-url "/dist" -d "../../app/public/dist"

Backend:

Inside root folder execute these commands:

cargo build --bin backend-bundled --release --features=bundled

The packaged executable will now be inside target/release

Gallery

Mobile View

Desktop View

Overview

Basic library viewer.

Basic book viewer.

Basic book reader.

It can even go fullscreen!