# Readarr-Redux

Readarr-Redux is an unofficial continuation of Readarr, the ebook and audiobook manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users, which the Servarr team retired in June 2025. It is open source and self-hosted, installable on Unraid.

Canonical page: https://ourlocalhost.com/app/7318/readarr-redux

## Description

Readarr Redux is an unofficial continuation of Readarr, the ebook and audiobook manager for Usenet and BitTorrent users, which the Servarr team retired in June 2025. It runs against a metadata source you choose and fixes the bugs that made Readarr lose books. You need a metadata source: Readarr Redux has no built-in one. Run rreading-glasses (https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses) yourself or use a public instance you trust, then set it in Settings, Metadata Source. It is a drop-in for the linuxserver.io Readarr container: config.xml and readarr.db sit at the root of /config. To move over, stop your old Readarr container and copy its appdata folder to the path below first, so the old container keeps an untouched copy. The database upgrade can't be undone without that copy. Until a login is set up, the web UI asks for a one-time setup code, which Readarr prints to the container log

## Platform availability

Available on 1 of 9 platforms: Unraid.

## Health score

42/100 (Fair), based on 3 of 4 factors.
- Maintained: 79 (last commit 1 day ago)
- Popular: 0 (0 GitHub stars)
- Easy to install: 20 (1 install platform, Docker image)

## Links

- Unraid: https://ca.unraid.net/apps/app_5e6e54ec90c4129b
- GitHub: https://github.com/dervish666/readarr-redux

## Alternatives

- Calibre-Web: Calibre-Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks using an existing calibre database.
- Citadel (ebook library manager): Citadel helps you manage your ebook libraries.
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- calibre: Free e-book manager offering library management, multi-format conversion, syncing to devices, news download as e-books, built-in viewer, ed…

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