LexariiCAT. 0009 The blog
Notes from the archive
What Lexarii is, how it is built, and what changes.
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How to ask AI questions about your own ebooks, with citations to the passage
A chatbot may answer from memory rather than from your book. How to get answers from the ebooks you own that cite the exact passage, so you can check them.
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How to catalogue a large ebook collection by author, series and subject
Hundreds of ebooks in a downloads folder? How to turn them into a catalogue you can browse by author, series and subject, without retyping a thing.
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Lexarii, Calibre-Web, Kavita and Komga compared, for a self-hosted ebook library
Four self-hosted servers for your own books, and what each is best at. An honest comparison, including where Lexarii is the wrong choice.
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How to run a free, self-hosted ebook library and reader
Run your own ebook library, reader and research assistant on a home server or a small cloud machine. What you need, the commands, and what to set up next.
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Keeping your place, highlights and notes in sync across devices, for ebooks you own
Shops sync your place in the books they sold you. For ebooks you own as files, here is why sync is hard, what your options are, and what to look for.
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What a private ebook library should mean, and how to check one
Many ebook and AI tools call themselves private. Eight questions that tell you whether one is, and how Lexarii answers each of them.
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About the name
Lexarii (lex-AR-ee-ee) is a coined Latin word meaning “the keepers of words”. Where it comes from, and what it promises.
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Self-host it, or let us keep it for you
Lexarii is free software under the AGPL, and also a hosted service for €14.99 a month. What each one is, honestly, and how to choose.