I’ve been a Readarr user with two instances(ebooks, and audiobooks) for a long time now. But more and more often, files get unlinked in the database making it less and less useful as a way to track what books I have vs “wanted,” which is my main use case.
I’ve been trying to convert to LazyLibrarian, but boy people weren’t exaggerating when they said the configuration is unclear. Unfortunately the docs do not clear it up. Interesting I’m what y’all are doing!


Can calibre-web-automated handle the metadata look-up? I’m using it as my web frontend for serving books.
I don’t mind going and finding individual books from IRC or other sources, but being able to subscribe to a centralized, “I want to read this” list is the feature I’m looking to replace at the end of the day.
I’m not sure if it automatically does the metadata lookup or if it just reads embedded metadata from the epubs I’ve downloaded. It for sure does a poor job of setting up the series name and book number fields if you read a lot of series.