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Posts tagged “lexarii”

    • research
    • lexarii

    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.

    • cataloguing
    • lexarii

    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.

    • self-hosting
    • comparison
    • lexarii

    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.

    • reading
    • lexarii

    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.

    • privacy
    • lexarii

    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.

    • lexarii
    • the-name

    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.