Also switched from homarr to homepage and have been happy with homepage.

FWIW, I was also looking for an ebook server solution. I looked at Calibre/Calibre-web and did not at all like how that worked and how Calibre-web was dependent on the Calibre library, and I hated how janky Calibre was as a docker container.

I settled on Audiobookshelf. I already had that up and running for my audiobooks, and they’ve been adding and improving ebook support, and I’ve been very happy with Audiobookshelf for both ebooks and audiobooks.

I didn’t care for Kavita because of the folder structure it required for ebooks. I may have been biased against Kavita’s folder requirements because I already had Audiobookshelf up and running.

For Audiobookshelf, the structure is:

Author > Series Directory (if applicable) > Book Title (directory) > Book file

I had the same question awhile back and found no alternative to Calibre with the de-drm (I’m on macOS). So I do the same. Download my ebooks from amazon, de-drm with calibre and upload to my server.

They were really good.

Do you mean a Pita Griffin meme???

Oh dang. I just looked fatteh up, and I’m definitely going to try making it. That sounds delicious.

It loafed me wondering if it was worth the effort, but I kneaded to try it at least once. Verdict, naan out of ten.

They were delicious! I was going to just make bread, but wanted some crunch to go along with the Moroccan style lamb tacos we had for lunch today. I should have taken more photos.

I made:

• flour tortillas (first time, they came out wonderfully)
• pita bread into garlic and onion pita chips (made the bread & chips on Friday)
• fresh tzatziki (also first time, also delicious!)
• spiced ground lamb meat
• fresh pickled red onions

It’s definitely isn’t my best photo work, but let me tell you, it was delicious!!!

Not an insect. Bit of seasoning.

Hahaha. Yeah. That hair.

I’ll keep that in mind. Thank you.

Hahaha! Nice catch. Courtesy of my wife.

I’d also suggest taking a look at Jellyfin.

As to the hardware, I’ve seen lots of recommendations for refurbished thin clients on eBay. Good value. Myself, I’m using a pc I had built for live streaming, and pivoted into a server. I think it’s got an i7 in it. I recently added some ram to bulk it up to 32g, and while it stared with a 240gb ssd, it’s now got a whole raid array in it.

You’re welcome!

Slow as a web server? I’ve only poked around it a little bit, the very little I did felt responsive, but I put no real load on it.

It’s another dashboard like homarr. I set up homarr and homepage side by side to pick one and landed on homepage. No specific reason, I just gravitated to it over homarr.

That it is!

When I was testing, I didn’t really notice it being overly obnoxious when I was logged in to the admin web ui. I wasn’t paying too much attention to that aspect of it since I have no intention of paying for premium. They may have toned it down since that kind of thing turns me off as well and I tend to notice if it’s egregious.

As others have mentioned, workspace is too vaguely defined for good answers. FWIW, I use the Blink Shell app on iOS to ssh into my server and/or computers from my iPad for my command line workspace. I also use my iPad to access/use many of the services I’m self hosting.

If you’re looking for a gui/DE, then something like guacamole would suit you better.