Nowen Reader turns a NAS folder of manga and novels into a private library you can browse, organize, and read from anywhere, without handing your collection to a cloud service. Drop comic archives and ebook files into watched folders and automatic scanning brings them into the library, detecting duplicates and cleaning up invalid entries along the way. Metadata arrives from AniList, Bangumi, MangaDex, MangaUpdates, and Kitsu, so covers, authors, and series information fill themselves in instead of being typed by hand. Read comics in single page, double page, or vertical webtoon modes with image filters and bookmarks, and pick up novels chapter by chapter where you left off. Reading status follows each user, with want to read, currently reading, and finished shelves plus personal ratings, favorites, and progress statistics. OPDS feeds stream pages directly to KOReader, Moon+ Reader, and other compatible apps, so your e-reader pulls from the same library. Optional AI assistance can suggest tags, summarize chapters, analyze covers, and translate pages. Libraries can be public, private, or shared with user groups, with per-library permissions for households. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.