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I'm looking to expand into having a online library and looking for some real world experiences and opinions. Ideally, looking for someone that worked well with docker and the various arrs.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We'll that's a shame to hear that readarr was abandoned.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

ShelfMark is the go-to option now. It's also far better than Readarr was and works seamlessly with both Prowlarr and Anna's Archive.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Chaptarr is a thoroughly re-worked fork of Readarr. It's been working nicely for me. Not released publicly yet, but it's going to be soon.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Chaptarr is a thoroughly re-worked fork of Readarr. It's been working nicely for me. Not released publicly yet, but it's going to be soon.

There is a fork of Readarr that works pretty well:

https://github.com/pennydreadful/bookshelf