https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/b35b7f40-7084-4a66-a820-78ab1bbfacb2 BookOrbit is one library for ebooks, PDFs, comics and audiobooks, with readers built in and an iPhone app. Hosted on ElfHosted. With hosted BookOrbit on ElfHosted, there's no laptop by the router: it runs with us at its own secure address, so the iPhone app and your e-readers connect from anywhere, not just on your home wifi. Setting it up happens behind your ElfHosted login, so nobody else can claim your instance; after that, BookOrbit's own login is what the iPhone app, e-readers and reading apps use. Everyone in the family gets their own account with the libraries you choose, and registration stays closed unless you invite them. Already have a library? BookOrbit imports from Grimmory, Audiobookshelf and Calibre-Web-Automated. What is BookOrbit? An ebook library that holds every kind of book: ebooks, PDFs, comics and audiobooks, with an ebook reader, a comic reader and an audiobook player built into the browser. The official BookOrbit app for iPhone reads ebooks, PDFs and comics, streams audiobooks or saves them to the phone, and keeps reading offline; Apple Watch plays the audiobooks you've saved to it. The iPhone app needs BookOrbit 3.0.0 or later and iOS 26 or later. Progress and highlights also sync both ways with a Kobo or KOReader, with OPDS, Send-to-Kindle and reading statistics on top. Start with a 7-day trial. It's backed up daily, and you can restore it yourself whenever you need to. Stuck? Sam, ElfHosted's AI helper, checks your actual apps, tells you what's wrong, and asks before fixing it. Unlike a generic chatbot, which guesses and overcomplicates, Sam is tuned on these apps and the way we run them: he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. If you'd rather ask a person, the ElfHosted team is on Discord around the clock, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server: one place for support for every app you run with us, instead of a GitHub issue, docs that may be out of date, or yet another Discord per project. BookOrbit includes no books: bring your own library. BookOrbit is open source, the work of its own developers; ElfHosted is not affiliated with the project. Start a 7-day trial: https://store.elfhosted.com/product/bookorbit/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=bookorbit BookOrbit docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/bookorbit/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=bookorbit ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=bookorbit Support the BookOrbit developers: https://ko-fi.com/neonbookorbit Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:17 What is BookOrbit 0:33 Running BookOrbit yourself 1:01 Hosted BookOrbit, kept running for you 1:15 Setup and family accounts About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #BookOrbit #Ebooks #ElfHosted Sat, 10 Oct 2026 11:17:34 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/b35b7f40-7084-4a66-a820-78ab1bbfacb2 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.