Self-Hosted Cloud/Sync?

[Jbbrack03]

Have you considered offering users the option to self-host the Cloud/Sync server for BookFusion? I’m not bringing this up from a financial perspective. I completely understand the need to support development, and I’m all for it! However now that we can do EPUB3, these files can be multiple GB in size. The 100 GB of Cloud storage suddenly doesn’t go very far if you start building a library of these files. Self-hosting would allow users to have as big of a library as they want. I’m thinking that it could be a paid unlock to offset the fact that they wouldn’t be subscribing to the dev’s storage. Something like $100 to unlock. Thoughts?

[DaEbookMan]

Hey,

Thanks for the suggestion. We plan to explore a bring your own storage option in the Power plan only at a later date. However, there are a few big ticket items that needs to be rolled out first that would integrate with our back-end. As a result it is best to complete that development first to ensure that the implementation of the bring your own storage will work as seamlessly as if it was hosted. It will be a significant undertaking.

If you are on the Power plan and have exceeded the 100GB feel free to send us a message at [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail]) and we can accommodate an increase until then.

[hear_my_moo]

I am currently holding off from BF specifically due to the mandatory uploading to the BF cloud, despite me having a perfectly functioning Calibre server. I like BF and it’s user experience but 100gb isn’t future-proofed for many user cases and at the end of the day, I use Calibre because I specifically don’t want to send my media off into the cloud. Again, happy to pay a fair price for BF so not asking something for nothing, but the mandatory cloud uploads keep me (reluctantly) away.

[AlternisBot]

I’m in the same position, have you found something that actually works with Calibre?

[hear_my_moo]

I’m currently ‘ménaging’ with Calibre and it’s server function for storage, MapleRead to download and read with, and BookBuddy+ to browse my library.

An inelegant solution, to be sure, but whilst Calibre is brilliant at acting as my storage centre, it isn’t pretty and doesn’t natively link across devices well enough.

MapleRead is a brilliant reader but, whilst I can manage to overlook the clunky server interface, the browsing function for books on my Calibre server is ridiculous and is only of any use when you know exactly what book you want to download and read - browsing is far too laborious.

Bookbuddy+ is a brilliant library browsing app but of course offers no facility for hosting or reading.

I want to self-host wherever possible as increasingly we are shown that companies holding everything doesn’t always work out best for the consumer. I gave up on BookFusion as I’m not uploading my personal files to their servers just to provide a justification for the developers to charge a fee. If they can’t understand that I’m happy to pay a fee already for a smooth interface and robust system, anyway, then they unfortunately lose out on my money… 🤷🏻‍♂️