I have bunch of textbooks, and a lot of lecture notes and notes from colleagues, all in PDF format. What is a good way to classify, manage, store, and read these PDF files? I am trying calibre-web, but it seems difficult to find applications to connect to it.
Contrary to the others here,while I love Paperless,using it for textbooks and notes only worked “somewhat” for me - it becomes quite clunky after a while.
Personally I would rather go with Calibre if I were you if you have more textbooks than notes. Even for notes, they can be attached as well and better organised than Paperless.
(And don’t get me wrong paperless is awesome and I use it heavily)
Thanks, I am trying both paperless and calkbre and see which works better for which tasks.
Not self-hosted so I doesn’t really answer your question… However, if you’re still a student consider the switch to Zotero.
Things you can self-host though, to make your books available everywhere, is some webdav sever to link your books directly to zotero and access them on every device.
If you’re serious about book reading and study, nothing beats Zotero !
All great recommendations here. But I’ve heard good things about PdfDing. I haven’t used it myself but have followed development since the developer is quite active.
What’s wrong with just folders and file names?
Benefit of data managers: Tags for easier searching and grouping, grouping that is folder agnostic, easily choosing a thumbnail, and in text focused ones you can usually search the content of the files from one location and easily look through the results for the correct one, etc.
Not sure what your preferred platform is but I’ve had great success connecting to my Calibre-web site with Yomu on iOS.
Not quite the correct application but linkwarden would work. Stores all your links but also backs everything up via html, plain text, and pdf. You can categorize content and tag content. Then there are filter and search tools.
You can just give it PDFs and it will import them over as well. Only saves them as a pdf but still would work.
I’m guessing this is not the best approach but wanted to give you options.
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Not self hosted necessarily, but TagStudio is an interesting project worth keeping an eye on https://docs.tagstud.io/
StirlingPDF ? Website : https://www.stirlingpdf.com/ GitHub : https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF
StirlingPDF is great, but more of a PDF editor.
OP wants something to store and manage his PDF’s.
You’re right I was certain it was doing both editing and managment but my memory played me