rreading-glasses - readarr replacement
Given that readaar has been retired and is no longer maintained I want to suggest rreading-glasses as a replacement:
This is a drop-in replacement for R——'s (now defunct) metadata service. It works with your existing R—— installation, it's backwards-compatible with your library, and it takes only seconds to enable or disable. You can use it permanently, or temporarily to help you add books the R—— service doesn't have yet. It works equally well with ebooks and audiobooks.
Unlike R——'s proprietary service, this is much faster, handles large authors, has full coverage of G——R—— (or Hardcover!), and doesn't take months to load new books. Hosted instances are available at https://api.bookinfo.pro (G——R——) and https://hardcover.bookinfo.pro, but it can also be self-hosted.
As of August 2025 there are ~6100 daily users of the shared instance.
Comments3
varg
Nov 7, 2025
We have no current plans to add rreading-glasses as a standalone application. However, you can update your Metadata Provider Source in Readarr by following the instructions found here.
Tucker
Dec 15, 2025
TY @Varg, unfortunately, the public api.bookinfo.pro mentioned in the docs for rreading-glasses has been down for months now.
We really either need to be able to self-host rreading-glasses, point at public instance of rreading-glasses run by Ultra, or…. install Chaptarr as a replacement for Readarr.
https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses/issues/351
https://github.com/blampe/rreading-glasses/issues/386
etc…
I’d vote for Chaptarr as the better long-term solution since Readarr is now dead and buried, but anything would be welcome as a bridge.
An Anonymous User
Oct 27, 2025
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rReading-Glasses
is it possible to add this?
Thanks :)