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A self-hosted library server for your books — like Plex, for EPUB, PDF, and comics. Drop files in, and North Star scans, enriches, and serves a beautiful reading experience across every device on your network — online or off.
Your book collection shouldn't live in someone else's cloud. North Star runs on your own hardware: a background worker scans your folders, extracts metadata from the files themselves — title, author, publisher, ISBN, description, page count — enriches it from Google Books and Open Library, and pulls cover art automatically. The result is a private library that feels like a streaming service.
Start reading on a tablet, pick up on a laptop — your place in every book follows you. Install it as an app and your opened books stay readable offline, with progress that syncs back the moment you reconnect.
Scans and imports your folders, enriching metadata from file contents plus Google Books and Open Library, with cover extraction and thumbnails.
EPUB, streaming PDF, and a comic (CBZ) reader — with double-page spreads, webtoon scrolling, and right-to-left manga mode. No external apps.
Postgres full-text search indexes the words inside your books, not just titles and authors — so you can find a passage, not just a file.
Installable as an app; opened books are cached for offline reading and progress made offline syncs when you reconnect. Continue Reading and Recently Added on home.
JWT auth with rotating refresh tokens, self-service password reset, and account lockout over a PostgreSQL backbone. Per-user libraries and reading progress.
Per-book progress, longest streak, and reading-pace stats — plus author and series management, filters, and sorting across the collection.
A clean reading experience in light and dark — browse the library, dig into a book, and read right in the browser.
North Star deployments are available as commissions.
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