I read books from an ~/ebooks folder synchronized between my phone and my laptop using Syncthing. I have two Kobos too. All of my reading is done through KOReader.

I don’t run Syncthing on the Kobos, though. (I was able to deploy Syncthing, but found integration and management far too much effort for my taste.)

I don’t use OPDS.

I don’t run a bespoke docker container.

Nah. That’s complicated.

It’s just WebDAV or USB mass storage.

For USB, I plug the Kobo into my phone or laptop, copy the files over — done.

For WebDAV, I run my host-webdav script on the laptop and pull books from KOReader’s Cloud Storage interface. The script is a thin wrapper around rclone serve webdav.

OPDS seems nice. But if my goal is to copy files, devoid of indexing or search functionality, I don’t see much benefit.

I’m too busy reading my books to worry about OPDS.

Books are files. Files move with file tools.

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