Calibre (& Calibre web?)
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@girish I may not have come across well (I tend to do that
). As far as I know, Calibre-web uses the Calibre application as a database/backend. I thought that Calibre proper was also the only way to get an OPDS catalog available to e-readers, but it turns out that Calibre-web offers this as well. What this means is that Calibre doesn't need to be accessible to the www, but still needs to be part of the package as that is the actual book database behind Calibre-web. Hope that helps! -
Calibre web operates completely standalone. It just uses the calibre database to store and order the books.
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@ultraviolet Do you think you can add a license to https://github.com/euanmcgregor/calibre-web-cloudron as well? Thanks
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@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
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@ultraviolet I see but how did you generate them or create them? Are they provided by the upstream project?
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@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.
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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?
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@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/ )
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@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.
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@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.
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@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!
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@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...
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@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.
