vavallee/bindery
Automated book download manager for Usenet. Monitor authors, search indexers, download via SABnzbd, and organize your library. The modern replacement for Readarr.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 51 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Automates ebook and audiobook management by monitoring authors, searching indexers, downloading via SABnzbd, and organizing your library from Usenet and torrents.
- Ensures resilience by using multiple stable metadata sources with no scraping, preventing single points of failure common in alternatives like Readarr.
- Use for migrating and continuing a Readarr library seamlessly with full import of authors, indexers, and download clients without data loss.
- Use for self-hosted, low-maintenance book acquisition on ARM devices including Raspberry Pi, with a single Go binary and embedded React UI.
- Use for managing multi-user libraries with role-based access, OIDC authentication, and request queues for family or community book sharing.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
The Readarr replacement built to outlive its metadata sources.
Automated ebook & audiobook management for Usenet & torrents — monitor authors, search indexers, download, organize.
You probably got here because Readarr died. The official project was archived in June 2025 when its metadata backend (
api.bookinfo.club) went permanently offline — one dead endpoint took the whole app down. The community forks that followed lean on Goodreads scrapers that break whenever the site changes its HTML.Bindery is built so that can't happen to you:
Clean-room Go rewrite, modern React UI, MIT-licensed, actively developed.
Pick Bindery for a modern, low-maintenance manager that survives metadata outages and swallows your old Readarr database whole. Pick LazyLibrarian if you want a long-established tool with magazine and comic support and don't mind a dated UI. Pick Livrarr if you want the same single-binary spirit and don't need the maturity, the Readarr import, Pi-class ARM, or a Helm chart yet. Calibre-Web / Audiobookshelf solve a different problem — serving an already-curated library, not automating acquisition — and pair well downstream of Bindery.
Competitor details verified June 2026 (Readarr archived 2025-06-27; LazyLibrarian active community fork; Livrarr v0.1.0-alpha5). Livrarr rechecked September 2026: v0.1.0-alpha6. Spotted something out of date? Open an issue.
Daily snapshots
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+44 stars over 21 days across 3 snapshot days.
Forks
79+6
Open issues
87-46
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| Category median | 13.5K | +1.4K | 60 | — |
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