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Calibre Web Reviews

Calibre Web is a web app providing a clean interface for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks...

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We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on Reddit and HackerNews. They can help you see what people think about Calibre Web and what they use it for.
  • What to use with Docker?
    I guess most people already recommended plex wrapperr, tautulli, and plex-meta-manager. If you want to host your own budget software, there is firefly iii. Calibre with calibre-web is nice for organizing e-books, imo. I also like OpenProject for organizing projects, like stuff from work or renovating a room. - Source: Reddit / 7 days ago
  • Is possible to send to email through the Calibre server?
    It's an option in calibre-web, which is a different product that you have to install separately: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web. - Source: Reddit / 16 days ago
  • Recommendations for self hosted royal road
    There's also alternative web interfaces for calibre like https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web which I keep meaning to set up, but the built in works fine for me. - Source: Reddit / 16 days ago
  • Gen Zers are bookworms but say they're shunning e-books because of eye strain, digital detoxing, and their love for libraries
    If you are tech-savy enough you actually can set that up. I use calibre-web with the kobo integration and a configuration file change on my kobo libra to do exactly what you want, automatically sync newly added books to my kobo and freely browse my library from my kobo. - Source: Reddit / 20 days ago
  • Does anybody share their e-book collections with friends/family?
    My suggestion is to organize your e-books via Calibre and then use Calibre-Web for sharing. You can set it up to allow browsing and downloads without the reader portion. You'll have to allow access to the server in some manner (e.g., Tailscale, open port, Cloudflare Tunnel). - Source: Reddit / 22 days ago
  • Any tool for eBook web self-publishing?
    You can use https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web, but you'll have to create calibre database at first launch. For docker container you'll have to exec inside it and run following commands: Cd /app/calibre/bin #go to the bin folder Calibredb restore_database --really-do-it --with-library /books #create a new db Chmod a+w /books/metadata.db #add write privileges Exit After that all settings and app support can... - Source: Reddit / 22 days ago
  • web-based pdf & papers management and bibliography
    Https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web is a separated project that has that nice UI. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago
  • New Unraid Build - Looking for Feedback/Suggestions
    Ebooks (I currently use Calibre, and foundthis post about using calibre-web earlier today. Setting this up in Docker seems like a good option). - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago
  • Is anyone working on making a modern user interface (frontend) for Calibre?
    Also, I have heard of people using calibre-server and calibre-web for simple management for their household to access books from a calibre database. - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago
  • 40 Containers & Counting...
    Calibre-web - Nice ebook library server. A good complement to Readarr. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago
  • Selfhosted book library with app to read these books
    Calibre-web maybe? I'm not 100%, I haven't tried it yet, but it's on my todo list. - Source: Reddit / about 2 months ago
  • Is there a way to keep the Calibre server online all the time?
    Caibre-web's github page This also has instructions for installing locally and using on a single computer, but you'll run into similar issues as in it'll be off when your computer is off. - Source: Reddit / 2 months ago
  • wireless send
    Worth noting that the Calibre content server and Calibre-Web are two separate things. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • Using it to read E-Books? Why not!
    I run an instance of Calibre-Web on my home server, so I only software that is needed to read books in my network is a browser. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • Mandown - Comic downloader and CBZ/EPUB/PDF converter for ereaders
    Thanks for sharing! I haven't looked at Kavita, but I've been using calibre-web because it can pretend to be the Kobo store for my Kobo and automatically sync books that way. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago
  • Is there anything that can replace Calibre?
    You can do most of that with calibre-web. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago
  • Kindle Oasis -> Kobo Libra 2 as a Calibre Power User
    Nope - Pihole is DNS for adblocking, whereas Calibre-Web is a 'server' you can run to view your calibre library on. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago
  • Drm Books
    Not entirely an app but https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web may do what you want it dose need a Linux machine. - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago
  • Calibre-Web & Univention Corporate Server
    Nextcloud, Bookstack, Tandoor, Proxmox etc all successfully authenticate against the UCS-LDAP.Only Calibre-Web won't work? - Source: Reddit / 4 months ago
  • Looking for a self hosted magazines server/newstand
    Currently I use calibre-web to organize them as follows:. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago
  • Help me with this program installation
    I want to install this program Calibre-web. I have a laptop that isnt powerful enough by modern standards. I want to know if I install this program as per the recommendation in virtual environment, will it be resource heavy for my system? Or can I follow this guide without any issue? Any other inputs are welcomed I'm on linux mint 20.3 xfce i3-3110m /4GBthanks for your time. - Source: Reddit / 5 months ago

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