booklore

Your books deserve a home. This is it.

BookLore is a self-hosted app that brings your entire book collection under one roof.
Organize, read, annotate, sync across devices, and share, all without relying on third-party services.

✨ Features

🚀 Quick Start

All you need is Docker and Docker Compose.

Step 1: Environment Configuration

Create a .env file:

# Application
APP_USER_ID=1000
APP_GROUP_ID=1000
TZ=Etc/UTC

# Database
DATABASE_URL=jdbc:mariadb://mariadb:3306/booklore
DB_USER=booklore
DB_PASSWORD=ChangeMe_BookLoreApp_2025!

# Storage: LOCAL (default) or NETWORK (disables file operations, see Network Storage section below)
DISK_TYPE=LOCAL

# MariaDB
DB_USER_ID=1000
DB_GROUP_ID=1000
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=ChangeMe_MariaDBRoot_2025!
MYSQL_DATABASE=booklore

Step 2: Docker Compose

Create a docker-compose.yml:

services:
  booklore:
    image: ghcr.io/booklore-app/booklore:latest
    container_name: booklore
    environment:
      - USER_ID=${APP_USER_ID}
      - GROUP_ID=${APP_GROUP_ID}
      - TZ=${TZ}
      - DATABASE_URL=${DATABASE_URL}
      - DATABASE_USERNAME=${DB_USER}
      - DATABASE_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
      - DISK_TYPE=${DISK_TYPE}
    depends_on:
      mariadb:
        condition: service_healthy
    ports:
      - "6060:6060"
    volumes:
      - ./data:/app/data
      - ./books:/books
      - ./bookdrop:/bookdrop
    healthcheck:
      test: wget -q -O - http://localhost:6060/api/v1/healthcheck
      interval: 60s
      retries: 5
      start_period: 60s
      timeout: 10s
    restart: unless-stopped

  mariadb:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb:11.4.5
    container_name: mariadb
    environment:
      - PUID=${DB_USER_ID}
      - PGID=${DB_GROUP_ID}
      - TZ=${TZ}
      - MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=${MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD}
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=${MYSQL_DATABASE}
      - MYSQL_USER=${DB_USER}
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=${DB_PASSWORD}
    volumes:
      - ./mariadb/config:/config
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: [ "CMD", "mariadb-admin", "ping", "-h", "localhost" ]
      interval: 5s
      timeout: 5s
      retries: 10

Step 3: Launch

docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:6060, create your admin account, and start building your library.

⚠️ Network Storage (NAS / NFS / SMB / CIFS)

If your book files live on network storage, set DISK_TYPE=NETWORK in your .env file. This puts BookLore into network storage mode, which disables all file write and reorganization features. Metadata is stored in the database only and your files are never modified. This is the only supported configuration for network storage.

📥 BookDrop: Zero-Effort Import

Drop book files into a folder. BookLore picks them up, pulls metadata, and queues everything for your review.

Mount the volume in docker-compose.yml:

volumes:
  - ./bookdrop:/bookdrop

💜 Support BookLore

BookLore is free, open source, and built with care. Here’s how you can give back:

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