GuideVault

[Shredder_guitar]

I’ve been working on a new project called Guidevault.

It’s a self-hosted web reader and library manager for video game manuals, strategy guides, and gaming magazines. The idea is pretty simple: keep your own files where they are, scan them into a clean library, and read them through a browser-based interface.

It supports things like manuals, strategy guides, magazines, local folder scanning, metadata editing, reader preferences, Docker deployment, and OPDS access for compatible readers.

Still a work in progress, but it’s finally public on GitHub for anyone interested in checking it out:

https://github.com/Shredder5262/Guidevault

 

A bit more info https://guidevault.net

Edited June 7 by Shredder_guitar

[Shredder_guitar]

Taking shape after getting metadata cleaned up a bit. 

[rexryan]

Interesting what about comics? Metadata?

 

[Shredder_guitar]

On 6/9/2026 at 5:52 PM, rexryan said:

Interesting what about comics? Metadata?

 

You can use Kavita Reader for Comics, I want to get away from having to depend on comicrack for organizing cbz. I may support other things for video games in the future, for now it is specifically manuals, strategy guides and magazines. 
Regarding Metadata enrichment...................  stay tuned. 

Edited Wednesday at 11:39 PM by Shredder_guitar

[rexryan]

Just now, Shredder_guitar said:

You can use Kavita Reader for Comics, I want to get away from having to depend on comicrack for organizing cbz.
Regarding Metadata enrichment...................  stay tuned. 

Thanks..Will follow..

 

[Shredder_guitar]

Color scape can be applied to main menu's (optional) 

 

Local Stat Visual Polish

 

Enhanced user section, added local/server based review area. 

• OPDS extra-click issue resolved.
• Docker/GHCR package released successfully.
• New container package looks good so far.
• Source/repo icon mismatch is cleaned up.
• Bad nested docs/images/images folder was removed/moved correctly.
• Release pipeline is working again.
• BUNCH of visual improvements 
   

[Shredder_guitar]

Here is a sample of json data that would be stored with a manual/strategy guide/ magazine after data enrichment....which is infinitely better for storing relevant data to an object. This would replace comicinfo.xml.  The idea is to bridge the gap between a guide/manual and the game title itself so a mixture of datapoints related both to the guide itself and the game title are stored together to make the bridge. 
guidevault-guide-metadata.json

Edited Saturday at 04:26 AM by Shredder_guitar