FolioYour Self-Hosted Book Collection

Manage books, track loans, and showcase your library — on your own machine or server.

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Personal Library

Add and organize your book collection. Import metadata from OpenLibrary, Google Books, and more with a single click.

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Build rich author records with biographies, birth dates, and alternate names pulled from Wikidata and OpenLibrary.

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Run a full lending library with user accounts, loan tracking, and book request workflows.

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Present your collection publicly — visitors browse books and authors without borrowing access.

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Access your collection from the companion Expo mobile app on iOS and Android.

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Your data stays on your machine or server. Extend the monorepo with your own features using the clean API/service/repository pattern.

You don't need to know programming. This guide walks you through installing, starting, and using the app step by step.

Understand the architecture, learn the API patterns, and contribute new features cleanly.