Calibre (& Calibre web?)

[ultraviolet]

Calibre web operates completely standalone. It just uses the calibre database to store and order the books.

[girish]

@ultraviolet Do you think you can add a license to https://github.com/euanmcgregor/calibre-web-cloudron as well? Thanks

[ultraviolet]

@girish all done!

[yusf]

Oh! Gonna take it for a spin.

[yusf]

Works pretty good! LDAP integration will ace it!

[ei8fdb]

I've read this thread but wanted to ask - is there a procedure to follow for this installation? I'd like to try it.

[girish]

@ultraviolet I tried to move the app package forward. Can you tell me how those database files are created (and why are they needed?). Meaning the files here - https://github.com/euanmcgregor/calibre-web-cloudron/tree/master/Library

[girish]

@ei8fdb I put a small tutorial here - https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3102/building-custom-packages . Feel free to ask questions there.

[ultraviolet]

@girish Yes they are needed that is the base database for calibre, they are copied to the app/data on build (if I recall correctly)

[girish]

@ultraviolet I see but how did you generate them or create them? Are they provided by the upstream project?

[ultraviolet]

@girish ah with you. No it needs to be generated by the calibre project it is an empty database created that the web app uses to connect to. I created it as I would then need to install calibre into the app container then use the api to generate the empty db then remove calibre. Seemed a waste of time so I created a blank one for the purpose of ease.

[girish]

Got to hack on the app this weekend. Still have to figure how to automate the settings but I wanted to ask how this integrates with mobile apps. It seems to me that this is done via the calibre content server (and not calibre web). I think it would not be very useful if we just had calibre web but no way to access the books from the mobile apps. I think what this means is that I have to set up the app so that the content server is also running (and authenticates via LDAP or something).

Am I correct about this?

[jdaviescoates]

@girish I don't know, but I'd still find it useful even if I couldn't use mobile apps (my phone is full up and has no space for any more apps anyway - it's so annoying I can't delete all the Google apps I never user, once this phone dies I'm definitely going to get a 2nd hand phone that will run https://e.foundation/ or https://lineageos.org/ )

[thetomester13]

@girish the combination of Calibre and Calibre-web is quite tricky. That being said, there are plenty of apps that can read from Calibre-web's OPDS server. I personally use MapleRead SE on iOS, but any app that supports OPDS can plug into Calibre-web's server.

Also, I could be wrong here, but I believe Calibre doesn't support LDAP whereas Calibre-web does.

[girish]

@thetomester13 said in Calibre (& Calibre web?):

OPDS

Ah, thanks for this note. This is what I was missing. I was wondering how to get books out of the app for mobile use and this seems to be it.

@jdaviescoates I also managed to figure out how to automate the LDAP parts, so I will get it published soonish.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Calibre (& Calibre web?):

@jdaviescoates I also managed to figure out how to automate the LDAP parts, so I will get it published soonish.

Woohoo!

[mehdi]

So, anyone know if the desktop apps can synchronize with the web app ? I have a quite large Calibre library locally, I'd appreciate uploading it and keeping it in sync

[thetomester13]

@mehdi Yes, Calibre is the 'backend' for Calibre-web. If you manage to upload your local Calibre to this Calibre, then Calibre-web should have it all synced up for you. I managed to do this upgrade before (with a relatively small library). I wonder if I can dig up the instructions somewhere...

[jdaviescoates]

@mehdi from a quick search around it also seems one possible option (which I think I might try once we've got Calibre-web in Cloudron) is to store your Calibre library in a Nextcloud folder and then connect/ sync both the desktop Calibre and Calibre-web to that.

[girish]

Alright, almost there. There's a few bugs I have to report upstream and learn some python along the way to get those fixed.