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Readarrpro

Readarr is the ebook + audiobook PVR in the *Arr stack — monitors author releases, grabs new books matching your quality profile, organizes by author/series/year. Books counterpart to Sonarr (TV) and Radarr (movies).

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📺 Media stack Min 256 MB RAM Port 8787 (http) Tier pro

// What it is

A closer look.

Readarr is the ebook + audiobook PVR in the *Arr stack — monitors author releases, grabs new books matching your quality profile, organizes by author/series/year. Books counterpart to Sonarr (TV) and Radarr (movies).

Still in active development (uses :develop branch), but production-usable for ebook automation.

// Use cases

What it's for.

Concrete scenarios where teams pick Readarr over the SaaS alternative.

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Automated ebook collection

new releases from tracked authors imported

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Audiobook tracking

separate from ebook tracking, same author entity

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Series completion

fill gaps in multi-book series

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Format preferences

EPUB preferred over PDF, etc.

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Library organization

Calibre / Audiobookshelf friendly structure

// Who it's for

Built for these teams.

If your team profile matches one of these, Readarr is a strong fit out of the box.

Profile A

Ebook collectors

with growing personal libraries

Profile B

Audiobook listeners

managing on Audiobookshelf

Profile C

Privacy-conscious readers

rejecting Amazon / Audible DRM

Profile D

Self-hosted media enthusiasts

completing the *Arr stack

Profile E

Genre-specific collectors

(fantasy series, hard sci-fi, etc.)

// Differentiators

Why teams pick Readarr.

When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Readarr consistently lands above the alternatives.

✓GPLv3 — fully open
✓Sonarr-family UX — familiar if you know Sonarr/Radarr
✓Audiobook + ebook unified — same artist entity, different formats
✓Quality profiles — preferences per format
✓Active dev — develop branch ships features regularly
✓Calibre + Audiobookshelf compatible — clean handoff

// Integrations

Connects to.

The stack you'll plug Readarr into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.

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Indexers

via Prowlarr (recommended) or direct

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Download clients

same as other *Arr apps

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Calibre / Calibre Web

ebook library + reader

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Audiobookshelf

audiobook playback

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Metadata

Goodreads, BookBrainz

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Notifications

same as other *Arr apps

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API

REST for programmatic mgmt

// Adoption & deployment

Notable users & community

1.5k+ GitHub stars
Smaller community than Sonarr/Radarr but growing
Active r/readarr + Discord
LinuxServer.io Docker image maintained (develop branch)
Standard component in book-focused self-hosted setups

What we ship

LinuxServer.io image: lscr.io/linuxserver/readarr:develop (no stable yet)
Volume layout: /opt/readarr/config, /opt/media/books, /opt/media/downloads
PUID/PGID 1000 default
Port 8787 exposed
Pairs with Prowlarr + Calibre Web / Audiobookshelf
HTTPS via Let's Encrypt reverse proxy
Backup hook covers /opt/readarr/config