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[Enhancement]: Physical Book Inventory #3310
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Originally created by @landonc on GitHub (Apr 20, 2026).
Type of Enhancement
Server Backend
Describe the Feature/Enhancement
With the current ability to support ebooks and audiobooks, the next logical step is supporting the ability to track your personal physical library of books. The add to library could have an option to set the media type to something like "physical book" where there is digital file to upload or associate but can import the metadata and track the physical book reading as well. You could own all three types: physical book, ebook, and audiobook.
Why would this be helpful?
There have been several attempts to create a simple physical book tracker, but they all seem to eventually lean toward ebooks. With the support for ebooks and audiobooks already in audiobookshelf, this would give the trifecta of tracking "books" for someone's personal library.
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Audiobookshelf Server Version
v2.33.2
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@nichwall commented on GitHub (Apr 20, 2026):
Audiobookshelf is designed as a server for local files, not a library tracking system. Library items must have an associated media file. You can create placeholder books using empty audio or ebook files and then apply a tag to indicate it is a physical book, but tracking of purely physical books will likely not be added.