I’ve never tried Booklore (glad of that now!) but what were the greatest benefits over something like Audiobookshelf (what I currently use)?

I use it for digital books and it works great. You can configure it to send a book to an email so it appears automatically. The auto tagging works well too.

I didn’t see a paywall when I clicked on the link, but you can try this:

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