Eloran

Comics and Ebook web library written in rust, with reading, search, reading status, bookmarks...

Intro

I used Ubooquity during a few years, but unfortunatly it is not opensource, and there is no read status, so I decided to find another solution.

I tried some alternatives : - Komga : best project here I think, but no "folder view" 😥 - Tanoshi : works well, in rust too 🦀🚀, but no support for ebooks - Calibre web or BicBucStriim : I just can't use Calibre's classification system - Kavita : nice project too, but I don't like the Collections system (feels like Calibre) - Nextcloud epubreader : an old app, but it doesn't work with most of my collection

So here I am, a personal project named after my childrens (Elora and Revan).

Feel free to use, improve, and cry to my low code quality !

• use a sqlite database
• store ebooks and comcis covers in database (~10ko per cover, almost 160 Mo for 15000 files)
• multiple users, with bookmarks pages, reading status with page number (not for pdf)
• periodic scan of libraries folders
• no cached data, comics images are extracted on the fly
• comics pages responsive size for optimized mobile network usage
• small binary : 5 Mio, alpine based image : 13 Mio
• small css, small compressed svg, no javascript
• rust 🦀🚀

Screenshots

I know this is AWFUL 🤮, I have not worked on the css yet, please be patient (or help meeeee 🆘) !

Installation

For now you need the css directory, so the simpliest way is to clone sources and build it with cargo, a usable binary and docker image will be available soon.

git clone https://github.com/thasos/eloran.git cd eloran just build target/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/eloran

If you do note use just, use it 😁 or just launch cargo build --release

Build dependencies

Arch : ``` sudo pacman -S libarchive cairo poppler-glib

if you want to package it in alpine image

sudo pacman -S musl ```

Debian/ubuntu : ``` sudo apt install libarchive-dev libcairo2-dev libpoppler-glib-dev

if you want to package it in alpine image

sudo apt install musl-dev ```

Fedora : sudo dnf install rust-glib-sys-devel.noarch sudo dnf install rust-cairo-sys-rs0.16-devel.noarch sudo dnf install cairo-gobject-devel.x86_64 sudo dnf install poppler-glib-devel.x86_64 sudo dnf install libarchive-devel.x86_64

TODO

• [ ] store session in database (see fn create_router() in src/http_server.rs)
• [ ] pretty error handling
• [ ] more testing
• [ ] allow relative path in library_path
• [ ] fix element numbers for sub directories
• [ ] handle cover.jpg files for directories (or use first file's cover ?)
• [ ] customized css
• [ ] upload files
• [ ] install page at 1st start : admin password, library_path, new user...
• [ ] share files (or directories, or page)
• [ ] grid or list view in preferences
• [ ] progress bar while reading, file info, and grid view
• [ ] easy go to page number while reading and from file info
• [ ] read pdf in new tab
• [ ] display read status in bookmarks page
• [ ] better css 🤪
• [ ] true ebook reading