Kindle is Amazon's e-book ecosystem, where purchases are licensed rather than owned and tied to its store. Self-hosted ebook servers organise your own DRM-free library, serve it to any reader app, and sync reading progress without a retailer.
7 open-source alternatives to Amazon Kindle you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.
| # | App | Category | Stars | Language | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
kovidgoyal/calibre
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E-books & Libraries | 26,415 | Python | today |
| 2 |
janeczku/calibre-web
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E-books & Libraries | 18,554 | Fluent | 1mo |
| 3 |
Kareadita/Kavita
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E-books & Libraries | 12,106 | C# | today |
| 4 |
gotson/komga
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E-books & Libraries | 6,839 | Kotlin | today |
| 5 |
stumpapp/stump
|
E-books & Libraries | 2,782 | TypeScript | today |
| 6 |
seblucas/cops
|
E-books & Libraries | 1,490 | PHP | 2y |
| 7 |
rvolz/BicBucStriim
archived
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E-books & Libraries | 415 | PHP | 3y |