Kavita is a fast, feature rich, cross platform OSS manga server. Built with a focus for manga, and the goal of being a full solution for all your reading needs. Setup your own server and share your manga collection with your friends and family!
- Serve up Manga (cbr, cbz, zip/rar, raw images) and Books (epub, mobi, azw, djvu, pdf)
- Provide Reader for Manga and Books (Light Novels) via web app that is responsive
- Provide customization themes (server installed) for web app
- Provide hooks into metadata providers to fetch Manga data
- Metadata should allow for collections, want to read integration from 3rd party services, genres.
- Ability to manage users, access, and ratings
- Run build.sh and pass the Runtime Identifier for your OS or just build.sh for all supported RIDs.
- Unzip the archive for your target OS
- Place in a directory that is writable. If on windows, do not place in Program Files
- Open appsettings.json and modify TokenKey to a random string ideally generated from https://passwordsgenerator.net/
- Run Kavita
I've gone through many beers building Kavita and expect to go through many more. If you want to throw me a few bucks you can here. Money will go towards beer or hosting for the upcoming Metadata release.