BookBridge
Bridging Books to AudioBookShelf
Private Alpha · Landing new features weekly 📱 Tablet · Phone · Browser
The self-hosted layer that turns a messy pile of audiobooks & ebooks into a clean, cover-complete AudioBookShelf library — and then keeps the whole house reading it. The Bridge matches every release across editions, series & volumes at ~99.95% and fetches covers at ~99%, without ever touching your source files. On top sits a full discover → grab → verify → read → learn loop, with a local AI helping the whole way — and it's built to protect your tracker standing while it does.
Loves MAM. One of the sources it supports — via MAM's authorized API only, rate-limited, never scraped. An independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by MAM.
Built for the ratio-conscious
Handing a new app your tracker session is a big ask — so BookBridge is designed, from the ground up, to protect your standing, not gamble with it.
Every automated grab passes three gates — Freeleech/VIP-first (zero download credit), a ratio floor, and an H&R / unsatisfied budget that even counts in-flight grabs so a burst can't blow past your limit. And nothing touches the tracker or your client without a human approving it.
Seed Guard — H&R protection
A live board of everything still seeding toward its requirement, closest-to-safe first, with paused / stalled / errored torrents flagged — so you never prune a source and trip a Hit & Run.
Seed-health watch
Notices when a torrent quietly stops seeding — or when your H&R count ticks up — and taps you once, de-duped. Plus find & stop any torrent by name right from Seed Guard, no trip to your client.New
Bonus-point tools & economy
FL/VIP filtering, rule-based bonus-point auto-spend, and a tracker economy view — your true earned points-per-hour, ratio trend, and unsatisfied count, all from authorized account data.New
Quality scanner
Compares each audiobook's real length to its true runtime and flags truncated / incomplete copies — catch a half-downloaded rip before it wastes a slot or cuts off mid-book.New
Dynamic-seedbox IP
An opt-in updater keeps your authorized seedbox session current — set it and forget it.
Your secrets stay local
Session cookie, tokens and passwords live on your own /data volume and are redacted everywhere — logs, audit trail, even the diagnostic bundle. Runs non-root; source mounted read-only.
Your shelf fills itself — safely
Opt in, and BookBridge quietly keeps your library growing on its own — always inside every ratio & H&R gate, and always staged in The Bridge for your review before anything hits your shelf.
Series-fill feeder
Tick the series you want kept complete — it queues their missing volumes a few at a time and stages them. A 20-book gap fills over days, never in one balloon.New
Discover feeder
Auto-stock the most-loved new releases you don't own yet, trickled in within your safety budget — a fresh pile to browse whenever you look.
Wishlist watcher
Flag a book you can't find yet; the moment a ratio-safe (FL/VIP) copy appears and there's H&R headroom, it's grabbed and on its way — no polling, no nagging.
A local AI, working for you
Point BookBridge at your own Ollama and a language model helps everyone find, understand, and stay on top of the library — entirely on your box. Not a search, not a stat, not a log ever leaves your server.
Ask the concierge
Describe what you're in the mood for — "cozy fantasy under 10 hours I don't own yet" — and get ranked picks from your library and the pile, each with a one-line reason.New
More like this & house picks
One tap surfaces similar titles you don't own; and a rail learns from what the household actually finishes and suggests matches, refreshed daily.New
AI insights & ops-check
The model pre-writes a plain-English read of your analytics, and quietly scans recent logs — tapping you only when something genuinely needs a look.New
The core — the crown jewel
The matching engine at BookBridge's heart, solid and shipping daily.
The Bridge — matching engine
Pairs each audiobook or ebook release — from any source — to the right book across editions, series & volumes at ~99.95% accuracy on real libraries.
Cover art that sticks
~99% coverage from a persistent, multi-source cache — Audnexus/Audible, Amazon, OpenLibrary, iTunes — keyed by ASIN & ISBN so covers are instant and survive re-imports.
Two-way ABS integration
Reads your library, detects what you already own, and pushes enriched metadata back — narrator, series + sequence, description, genres. Never touches your source files.
Series & completeness
Resolves series & sequence, merges GraphicAudio sub-series under their parent, tracks owned-vs-released against Hardcover, and imports missing volumes you've already grabbed instead of re-fetching.New
Series-fill feeder
Opt a started-but-incomplete series into safe auto-fill — BookBridge quietly queues its missing volumes and stages them for review, inside every safety gate.New
Built for big libraries
Virtualized rendering and tuned queries keep it responsive on 50k+ item libraries — fast where naive tools stall.
Read, listen & share
A friendly front end on top of ABS — for you and a small circle.
Read and listen in-app
A full audiobook player (chapters, sleep timer, variable speed, lock-screen / car / Bluetooth) and a built-in EPUB reader (bookmarks, themes). Progress syncs through ABS.
Reading goals & streaks
Set a books-per-month or per-year goal, watch a progress ring fill with a gentle pace nudge, keep a streak, and celebrate when you hit it. Admins can set a shared house goal.New
Group Reads & Friends' Shelves
Read a book together across formats — one listens, one reads — and see everyone's progress. Peek at what your circle is reading and loving (opt-in).
Find, request & approve
Low-privilege members request a book; an admin approves before anything downloads or imports. Per-user content gating keeps a shared household family-safe.
Send to Kindle & push
Email an EPUB straight to a reader's Kindle, and a private push lets them know the moment their book is ready — with per-category opt-ins and quiet hours.New
Insights & achievements
Household analytics — utilization, reading trends, retention, most-read authors & genres — plus a wall of playful reading badges.New
Add from any device
Find, request, read and listen from your tablet, phone, or browser — a responsive web app that installs to the home screen. No app store, nothing to sideload; everyone just opens a link.
One self-reinforcing loop
Every part feeds the next — from "I want that book" to "the whole house is reading it."
Match
The Bridge pairs every download — from any source — to the right book across editions, series & volumes at ~99.95%.
Enrich
Covers resolve from the multi-source cache (~99%), keyed by ASIN & ISBN so they're instant and survive re-imports.
Bridge
Enriched metadata flows back to AudioBookShelf — narrator, series, description, genres — source files untouched.
A look inside
Modern, dark, dense-but-clean. Tap any shot to enlarge. (Account numbers on the MaM screens are intentionally blurred.)
Private alpha — invite only
BookBridge is in a private alpha, currently invite-only. The core matching and cover engine works today and new features are landing fast, but it's under active development and breaking changes are still possible. Source, downloads, and install instructions aren't public during the alpha.
Bring your own AudioBookShelf, indexers, and download client — BookBridge wires them together. MAM is one supported source, integrated only through its authorized API. It ships with no books, indexers, or credentials.
📣 Interested? BookBridge is invite-only during the alpha. Reach out to biggreek19 — development is active and moving quickly.
Built with
Integrations: AudioBookShelf · Prowlarr · qBittorrent · SABnzbd/NZBGet · Ollama · Audnexus · Google Books · OpenLibrary · Hardcover · Wikidata.
BookBridge is an independent, self-hosted project — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to AudioBookShelf, MyAnonaMouse, Prowlarr, qBittorrent, or any other product, service, organization, or tracker. It manages your library and ships with no content, indexers, or credentials; you bring your own. It uses only documented, authorized endpoints — it never scrapes, never auto-uploads, and never acts on your tracker without your approval.