Gopherbook is a lightweight, single-binary, self-hosted web comic reader and library manager written in Go.
It is designed for people who want full control over their digital comic collection (CBZ/CBT files), including support for password-protected/encrypted archives, per-user libraries, tagging, automatic organization, and a clean modern reader.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Upload & read .cbz (ZIP-based) or .cbt (TAR-based) comics directly in the browser.
- Watch folder support for bulk imports – drop CBZ/CBT files into your watch folder and they’re automatically imported.
- Supports 8 Megapixel images at 512MB memory limits.
- Full support for password-protected/encrypted CBZ files (AES-256 via yeka/zip) or CBT files (AES-256-CFB Openssl).
- Automatically tries all previously successful passwords when opening a new encrypted comic.
- Persists discovered passwords securely (AES-encrypted on disk, key derived from your login password).
- Extracts ComicInfo.xml metadata (title, series, number, writer, inker, tags, story arc, etc.).
- Automatic folder organization: Library/Artist/StoryArc/Comic.cbz.
- Manual reorganization via UI if needed.
- Powerful tagging system with custom colors and counts.
- Filter comics by any combination of tags.
- Responsive grid view with cached JPEG covers.
- Full-screen web reader with:
- Page pre-loading.
- Zoom / pan.
- Fit-to-width/height/page.
- Keyboard navigation (←→, A/D, +/-, Esc).
- Multi-user support:
- Each user has their own completely isolated library and password vault.
- First registered user becomes admin.
- Admin can disable new registrations.
- Admin can delete any comic.
- No external database – everything stored in simple JSON files.
- Single static Go binary + file storage – easy to deploy.
Website: codeberg.org/riomoo/gopherbook
Support:
Developer: Riomoo
License: Prism Information License
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