Self-Hosting

Three months ago I wrote about why I was building Codex: years of daily Komga use, a few stubborn limitations, and two previous attempts at building my own digital library server that fizzled out somewhere in the middle. The post was speculative in places. The core was working, but a lot of “what’s next” was still on a list. This is the follow-up. Three months of daily use later, here’s what changed, what shipped, and what I learned. ...

I love Komga. It’s been my go-to for managing comics, manga, and ebooks for years, and it genuinely does the job well. The UI is clean, the feature set is rich, and the community around it is great. If you self-host a digital reading collection and haven’t tried it, you should. But after years of daily use, I kept bumping into a few limitations that I couldn’t work around. And eventually, the itch to build something of my own became too strong to ignore. ...