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We've compiled a list of 6 free and paid alternatives to COPS. The primary competitors include Ubooquity, ComiXed. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between COPS and Calibre Web, BicBucStriim, TinyOPDS. Also you can look at other similar options here: Office Software, Document Generation Software.
We've compiled a list of 6 free and paid alternatives to COPS. The primary competitors include Ubooquity, ComiXed. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between COPS and Calibre Web, BicBucStriim, TinyOPDS. Also you can look at other similar options here: Office Software, Document Generation Software.
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Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks...
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BicBucStriim streams digital books - it provides web-based access to your e-book collection.
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Simple OPDS / HTML content server for small servers.
Simple OPDS / HTML content server for small servers.
COPS' main advantages are :
* No need for many dependencies.
* No need for a lot of CPU or RAM.
* Not much code.
* Search is available.
* With Dropbox / Owncloud it's very easy to have an up to date OPDS content server.
* 100% OPDS valid code (checked with http://opds-validator.appspot.com/).
* It was my first PHP experiment and so fun to code.
Disclaimer
It's been reported as working on most web servers (Nginx, Apache, Cherokee, Lighttpd, IIS) and is used a lot on NAS (Synology, QNap, ReadyNas).
I personally protect my COPS catalog with Basic HTTP auth and HTTPS. It's secure enough for my needs.
On the OPDS client side I mainly tested with FBReader Mantano Reader and Aldiko on Android (these 3 also ask for user/password if you have protected your COPS catalog). I also used Ibis Reader with success but there is no support for password. Other users have reported COPS working with Stanza, Megareader, Shubook and Bluefire.
As I already said, I had never coded in PHP before so I'm not proud at all about the code quality. I'll probably start it again in the future ;).
Features
* HTML5 / CSS3 interface with responsive design.
* Multiple Calibre database support in a single COPS install.
* Epub metadata update like Calibre Content Server (enable it with $config['cops_update_epub-metadata']) : If you fixed the author name / a tag / the serie name of a book in Calibre, then the epub you'll download with COPS will contain the fix.
* Calibre custom columns.
* Facets in the OPDS feed to filter book list (the only OPDS clients supporting it are Mantano Reader and Bluefire for now).
* Multilanguage : Catalan, Czech, German, English, Spanish, Basque, French, Haitian (Creole), Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese.
* Certainly many other.
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