Did something similar with my 7th gen paperwhite, turned it into a little weather and calendar display. Wrote up the process if anyone wants to try it, also the battery life on these things as a dashboard is insane, barely need to charge it.
For what its worth, if you have one of the older paperwhites that's basically bricked now, you can jailbreak it and turn it into a pretty neat e-ink dashboard. I did this with my 7th gen a while back, wrote up the whole process. Its been running as a little weather/calendar display for months now on basically zero power. Better use than letting amazon decide when your device stops working
Oh nice, shelfdroid looks great! The admin functionality is a big gap - being able to manage users and backups from your phone is something I've wanted but never got around to building. I'm working on SoundLeaf (https://soundleafapp.com), the iOS side of things for Audiobookshelf, so it's cool to see the Android ecosystem getting some love too. Starred the repo.
Building SoundLeaf (https://soundleafapp.com) - a native iOS client for Audiobookshelf, the self-hosted audiobook server.
The whole thing started because my wife couldn't get into the official Audiobookshelf iOS TestFlight beta. Her exact words were "I cannot live without audiobooks." I'm a backend dev, never touched iOS or Swift before, but how hard could it be? (It was quite hard.)
About a year in now. CarPlay, offline downloads with background sync, Cloudflare Access support for tunneled servers, sleep timers that create bookmarks so that you can remember where you were the next morning. Currently working on podcast support. Solo project - no tracking, no accounts, just talks directly to your server.
https://soundleafapp.com
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/soundleaf/id6738635634