I wonder if there are any search engines dedicated to indexing these kinds of libraries. I know there's a decent one just for scihub, but it would be awesome if I could do a Google-style search that returned the contents of books, magazines and journal articles instead of just websites.
Wasn't that what google books was supposed to be?
Does anyone know of a good FOSS alternative for google books that could be self-hosted (for personal library)?
Does Calibre fit the bill? The program itself is great, but it supports a plugin system that really puts it over the top. One of them automagically strips off Adobe DRM for any book loaded in to it.
Seems that with calibre-web[1] we can have nice web front-end. But it doesn't have full-text search inside the content of the books though, unlike google books.