I write in my spare time, and I want to make my books available. Due to the nature of the format, I publish chapter by chapter, and not the entire book at once.
I’m trying to find some self-hostable software that would allow me to publish these ongoing novels.
My ideal software would:
- Let me create a book, and then let me continuously publish chapters in that book. The readers would see an overview of all the books, and be able to click on one, which would then open the list of chapters inside that book
- Serve the text itself, with some basic formatting. I don’t want to export the books to other formats, like epub or PDF. I just want to show the text, maybe with some basic formatting, and images
- Have some sort of a system where a reader would be able to see a feed of the newest chapters from every novel
- Would be usable out of the box. Yeah, I know I could probably set up Wordpress or another CMS to work this way, but I want to write stories, not code
- Installable using Docker Compose
Performs I have already considered:
- Bookstack, which seems to be more about structured writing and guides
- WriteFreely, which feels to be more about blogging
- Writebook, which has an extremely convoluted install process that would mess up the rest of my system
- Various Wiki software, which is not what I’m looking for
I’ve been looking for a long time, and I can’t seem to find anything. I’d appreciate any suggestions!