Add a book
Drag an .epub anywhere into the library, or use the upload button.
Uploading the same file twice is a no-op — Bookhoarder recognizes it
by content and points back to the existing book.
Read it in the browser
Click a book to open the built-in reader. Your position and percent complete are saved automatically, per profile.
Organize and find it again
Rate it, mark it read, add it to a shelf, or pull it back up later with search.
Uploading
- Drag and drop, or the upload button in the library header
.epubfiles only- Deduplicated by content hash (SHA-256) — the same file uploaded twice (even under a different filename) resolves to one book
- Bookhoarder reads the EPUB’s own metadata (title, author, ISBN, language) and extracts its cover automatically
- The archive is unpacked on upload so the reader can serve its contents
directly, rather than opening the
.epubas a zip on every read
Reading
- In-browser reader built on epub.js
- Table of contents drawer, and arrow-key navigation between pages
- Reading position and percent complete are saved automatically per profile — two profiles can read the same book independently, each picking up where they left off
- The reader follows your light/dark theme
- The Currently Reading smart shelf, in the sidebar, lists every book with progress — see Shelves
Organizing and finding a book
- Rate any book 1–5 stars
- Mark a book read or unread
- Search by title or author from the search dialog
- On a shared install, a book’s detail panel shows Readers — which other profiles have read, rated, or are partway through it
Tags and series
- Add tags and a series (name plus a position, like
#3) from a book’s Edit drawer — type a tag and press Enter or,to add it - Both are optional and shown on the book’s detail panel; a series shows
as
Name · #position - Filter the library grid by tag from the Tags menu above it — pick more than one and a book needs all of them to match
- The tag filter isn’t saved between visits, so it can never make your whole library look empty just because you filtered it and left
Downloading and removing
- Download the original
.epubfile from a book’s menu at any time - Deleting a book is admin-only — see Profiles & Access