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   Renne Rocha (rennerocha@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 09:55:44 JST Renne Rocha

   Installed Kavita Reader expecting to be able to have access to all my ebooks anywhere and possibly share some with my friends, but discovered that I can't upload books to my installation. I need to upload them manually to the server's filesystem using SFTP or any other method. Not the greatest UI unfortunately.

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     Renne Rocha (rennerocha@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jan-2025 09:59:25 JST Renne Rocha

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     There are some users requesting this feature (to upload your ebook to the library without needing to use complex commands or scripts), but the maintainers looked a bit arrogant (imo) saying that if you want that, just use SFTP or something like that and that they won't do and that the users should accept and not complain, as they don't have time (and desire) to implement that.

     Relatively easy for me (with IT background) but certainly difficult for general public.

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     Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:07:42 JST Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

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     I recently heard from someone who used FileZilla as a nice GUI for SFTP. maybe they could just recommend that?
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     Renne Rocha (rennerocha@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 03:24:05 JST Renne Rocha

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     • Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

     @lxo it is not to have a tool to upload the files (I can use SFTP even in CLI), but imo the concept that I can't upload books to my library in the same UI/app I use to organize and access them and I am required to use another app for this usual task that doesn't make sense to me. I installed calibre-web and I can do that easily.

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     Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:53:48 JST Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

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     I don't get why you'd have to upload things in the first place. I like to keep my own library at home, not off on someone else's cloud, though I have used GNU Jami to keep things I want to read automatically in sync and available on multiple devices. but hey, if this program you're speaking of is free software and you otherwise like it, it might make more sense to fork it and add the feature than to just leave it behind.
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     Renne Rocha (rennerocha@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 04:58:41 JST Renne Rocha

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     • Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

     @lxo I want to have access to my library anywhere in the world, and if I get a new book, I don't want to do be technical and use SFTP and low level commands (even if I'm 100% capable of that). I just want to upload it using my browser! I am hosting this app in a personal VPS, and sure I have local copies with me. calibre-web allows me to do that, so I am using it. But the UI of Kalita is more beautiful, so I'd prefer it, but the developers are not welcoming to add this feature.

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     Renne Rocha (rennerocha@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 05:03:39 JST Renne Rocha

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     • Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

     @lxo it is free software, and I know that the maintainers don't have to work on a feature that I want just because I am asking, but I saw how they treated other users suggesting the feature, and in my opinion they were a bit rude in their answers. This is why I ranted here. It is fine if they don't want to implement, but they can be more polite.

     "Fork and do it" also isn't the best solution, as I don't have time to "fork and do it" every single feature that I'd like to see in a software.

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     Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) (lxo@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 08:47:29 JST Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)

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     maybe you don't need to fork it yourself. if others share your interest in the program and lack the feature, you could get together to fund someone to implement it. but I guess you already know all that. sorry, I have a reflex to try to offer solutions when people are only looking for expressing frustration.