Final discussion thread of the year! If you think back to this time last year, most of us probably had never even heard of Lemmy, so it has been an eventful one. Having a smaller, but active community has exposed me to a wider variety of series that I hadn’t checked out before, so I look forward to more in the new year!
As always, this is a general discussion thread. So, feel free to reminisce with me or post about all the new manga you got for the holidays or anything else!
Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).
Maybe a bit more tech, but still manga related:
Today I got a Komga web server up and running on an old laptop for the digital manga that I bought. Komga is basically a selfhosted manga/comic streaming service (similar to Plex). I’m a big server/networking and linux noob so it took some figuring out, but I’m happy with the result for now. Now I can clear my ereader and phone and keep and read my manga from one place, but still have control over it myself. I still need a Windows installation to get the manga from Kobo, but once I figure out how to get Kobo running in Linux, I’m fully set (with the exception of safely exposing it to outside my home network, which I’m doing later).
As for reading manga: I’ve been catching up on Dosanko Gals this week. Fun stuff. Glad I could binge read parts of it though. I can imagine some parts dragging on if you had to wait for new chapters.
Welcome to the selfhosting journey! I started ~5 years ago with plex and now I am running maybe 30 docker containers over 6 different hosts (3 VPS’s are part of that). I had not heard of Komga before, but after looking it up, I certainly see the appeal. Most of what I read these days is done through Tachiyomi reading things from Mangadex, but the legally downloaded series are always a maze of apps/services to navigate. Bringing all those into a consistent webui is very appealing. I have tried to do the Tachiyomi local content thing before with cbz archives, but never really got it to act consistently and file management on a phone is not the easiest. A while back I had tried setting up Tachidesk to essentially run Tachiyomi as a web service, but it wasn’t really feature complete at the time. I just looked it up again now and it seems to be in a better place, so I might give it another go.
Thanks! If you have any tips or useful resources, please let me know.
I use that a lot too, but try to read legally where it’s possible. There’s a Tachiyomi extension for Komga as well!
Yeah, and with most of them, there’s DRM on them, so you need to remove that before you can actually use that with Komga. Thank goodness for Calibre for that. I tend to buy my digital manga from Kobo. I used to do this on Bookwalker, but you can’t remove that DRM unfortunately.
Of course you can also put stuff obtained from the seven seas on it.
Interesting. Might check this out too.