Your library, locally hosted & beautifully rendered.
Shelfhost is an open-source, serverless PDF reader and annotation platform. Fast, elegant, and designed to give you a warm, distraction-free reading experience entirely in your control.
Shelfhost is an open-source, serverless PDF reader and annotation platform. Fast, elegant, and designed to give you a warm, distraction-free reading experience entirely in your control.
We focused on building a gorgeous interface with zero distractions. The tools appear only when you need them.
Runs as serverless functions via Nuxt Nitro on Cloudflare Pages and Workers. Experience ultra-fast global load times without managing heavy Docker containers or VMs.
Highlight text selections instantly with multi-color highlights. Save your position with page bookmarks and jump back whenever you load your dashboard.
Uses Cloudflare's serverless SQLite engine (D1) for instant database query speeds, and Cloudflare R2 object storage to keep your PDF files completely secure and private.
Deploying Shelfhost is as simple as creating your serverless database, provisioning your file storage bucket, and running the build script. All configuration is consolidated into a simple configuration schema.
Since it compiles to pure Cloudflare Pages components, you will pay $0/month under Cloudflare's generous free tier for personal library usage.
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