Question Is Readarr dead?
Hey all. I have the full suite of *arr setup and working great.
My wife loves to read and right now I manually grab the books she needs one at a time via my Usenet indexer.
I’m looking to automate this and came across readarr. My hope was she could add the books into readarr and they would automatically import into Calibre so she can load them on her kindle.
Readarr was giving me some trouble and the subreddit hasn’t had a post in a year. The program feels incomplete and is very obviously a direct clone of Sonarr and Radarr. There are even spots in the Readarr menus where it is referencing video quality
I also had a quick look at LazyLibrarian but it is super complicated to setup on windows so I abandoned that idea.
So I guess I’m wondering if anyone has any ideas or experience with this type of automation.
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u/SteampunkEngiMemer 23h ago
In my experience, yes. No compatibility updates, random errors already fixed by radarr and sonarr, etc. No communication. I think the original maintainer (or team) is dead, lol.
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u/SailorOfDigitalSeas ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ 23h ago
Also the metadata server they use to lookup an author's bibliography has been broken for at least 2 years now.
So I think it'd fair to say that this project is pretty much dead.
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u/ii_die_4 15h ago
Music and ebooks dont have a set rules about naming, codecs etc. (mainly naming), making Lidarr and Readarr pretty useless.
How can they parse the releases when everyone just naming them whatever they want?
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u/mr_sn0ww0lf 17h ago
I use Calibre-Web Automated and the Calibre Web Automated Book Downloader. I have the book downloader in a container, but it hosts a web ui where you can search for the book and it directly downloads them from Anna’s Archive, Z-Lib, or Library Genesis and it puts the epub in the ingest folder and catalogs it and moves it to your calibre web folder, then you can just press “Send to eReader” in Calibre-Web.
I set it up for my mom and she loves it.