Calibre (& Calibre web?)
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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.
