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Top 10 eBook Organizers for Linux
September 20, 2025 | Editor: Maria Lin
eBook Organizers for Linux allow to manage electronic libraries on Linux computers
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calibre is an open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories: Library Management, E-book conversion, Syncing to e-book reader devices, Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form, Comprehensive e-book viewer, Content server for online access to your book collection
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Unique and innovative library management, inventory and database solutions for collectors, booksellers, schools, churches, libraries, and other organizations all over the world. Lets you feed in a list of ISBNs, UPCs or barcode scans. Readerware then does the rest, automatically searching the web and cataloging your books, music and videos. Readerware can merge information from multiple web sites to build the most complete database possible, with cover art. Automatically and effortlessly.
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Kavita is a rocket fueled self-hosted digital library which supports a vast array of file formats. Install to start reading and share your server with your friends.
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Lucidor is a simple tool for reading, managing and organizing your eBooks within your own personal bookcase. It supports ePub and OPDS catalog files. You can search for eBooks online and download them right into the application. A unique feature Lucidor has is the ability to have multiple eBooks open at one time. It does this via it’s tabbed interface, which is much like a Web browser. Lucidor even supports themes. There is also a search bar for finding specific keywords or phrases within your content.
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BookONO is a free e-book manager and reader (PDFs and EPubs fully supported) designed as a compliment to Calibre. It is written in C++ using the Qt5 Toolkit. It is different from Calibre in that it makes a few different design decisions than Calibre, for instance it does not attempt to put all your books in its own library or change their names. Where Calibre attempts to take complete control over your books, BookONO gives you control over your books. BookONO further attempts to take a different direction in terms of its UI, providing a more user-friendly, aesthetically-pleasing experience than Calibre.
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OpenAudible is a cross-platform audiobook manager designed for Audible users. Manage/Download all your audiobooks with this easy-to-use desktop application. Lightning fast conversion to MP3 and M4B audio formats. Access all Audible audiobooks across Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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Ubooquity allows to organize and read your ebooks and comics on your favorite device, supports many types of files, with a preference for ePUB, CBZ, CBR and PDF files. Ubooquity can be installed on any OS supporting Java (Windows, Linux, Mac OS...) and on a wide range of hardware (desktop computer, server, NAS...). Ubooquity lets you create user accounts and set access rights for each shared folder.
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Tellico is a software application for organizing your book collection. Tellico allows you to enter your collection in a catalogue database, saving many different properties like title, author, etc. Different views of your collection can be shown. The data is saved in XML, a text format which makes for easy parsing, portability, and styling. It will run on any platform which KDE supports, most commonly Linux. Tellico is licensed under the GNU General Public License, giving you the freedom to modify and distribute the source code.
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YACReader is a comic reader and comic manager with support for cbr cbz zip rar comic files. It is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.
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LazyLibrarian is a free open-source Linux / Mac OS program for ebooks, audiobooks and magazines that allows to follow authors and retrieve book metadata. It uses a combination of Goodreads Librarything HardCover OpenLibrary and GoogleBooks as sources for author info and book info.
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A free and open source manga reading server that runs extensions built for Mihon (Tachiyomi). Any platform that runs java and/or has a modern browser can run it. This includes Windows, Linux, macOS, chrome OS, etc.
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Kapowarr is a software to build and manage a comic book library, fitting in the *arr suite of software. You can add volumes, map them to a folder and start managing. Allows to download, rename, move and convert issues of the volume (including TPB's, One Shots, Hard Covers and more). Installing Kapowarr can be done via Docker or on top of Python.
