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KoShelfvsscholarsome

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

KoShelfscholarsome
Score45/10052/100
Rank in category#10 of 19 in Ebook Management#7 of 30 in Education
GitHub stars254792
Stars, last 30 days+0+0
Stable releases, 12 months150
Latest release2026.10.1 · 15 Oct 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseEUPL-1.2AGPL-3.0
Main languageRustTypescript

Which one should you pick?

scholarsome scores 52/100 against 45/100 for KoShelf, so it is the safer default.

KoShelf ships more often: 15 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for scholarsome.

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