tl;dr⌗

A web UI built with vue and buefy, with an index stored in firebase for searching and downloading epubs.

history⌗

An acquaintance told me he had a big collection of ebooks and that the windows file explorer wasn’t sufficient for handling the collection.
It also contained a lot of duplicate books with slightly different file names and titles.
So I started browsing github and found this project: BookBrowser which is a webUI for managing epubs.
And it did the job quite okay, but startup was slow and searching was exact and not fuzzy, so I started making some “improvements” to my fork:

• web UI based on bulma with vue
• deduplication based on normalized author / title
• client side parser
• storage in S3 (selfhosted with minio)
• firestore as scalable database (used to be mongodb, and a completely self-hostable version version with stormDB is on my wishlist)
• store the author / title as metaphone keys so searches don’t have to be exact
• added authentication with firebase auth (google)

technologies⌗

• go lang
• google app engine
• vue
• bulma css
• buefy
• firebase authentication
• firestore