I am setting up a new server for my media and wanted to ask for your best ways to manage an ebook and comic collection. I have been using calibre so far, but it is not really designed to be managed remotely.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    Calibre over Guacamole, Calibreweb, with Openbooks for usenet searching of books.

    spoiler 
    ---
version: "2.1"
services:
  calibre:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre:latest
    container_name: calibre
    environment:
      - PUID=0
      - PGID=0
      - TZ=America/Denver
    security_opt:
      - seccomp=unconfined
    volumes:
      - ./data:/config
    ports:
      - 7080:8080
      - 7081:8081
    restart: unless-stopped
    labels:
      - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true

  calibre-web:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre-web:latest
    container_name: calibre-web
    environment:
      - PUID=0
      - PGID=0
      - TZ=America/Denver
      - DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-calibre #optional
    volumes:
      - ./data/web-config:/config
      - ./data/:/books
#      - ./data/Calibre\ Library:/books
    ports:
      - 7083:8083
    restart: unless-stopped
    labels:
      - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true

  openbooks:
    ports:
      - 7082:80
    volumes:
      - './data/:/books'
    restart: unless-stopped
    container_name: calibre-openbooks
#    command: --persist
    command: --name fgddfghjasrtrtcgv --persist
    environment:
      - BASE_PATH=/
    image: evanbuss/openbooks:latest
    labels:
      - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true
  • tochee@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    For downloading, I use Readarr or manually download from where I buy the books. A lot of the time the books I buy have DRM so I end up pirating them anyway 🤷. When readarr sends a book to calibre, it tells it to convert it so I’ve always got epub and mobi available.

    For accessing my library, I use calibre-server, which I think comes bundled with the calibre desktop app. It’s got a basic web interface for uploading, editing some metadata, and downloading; and an OPDS API which my e-reader can use to download books. If I’m outside my home network I use my VPN to access it because I don’t trust calibre to be secure enough for internet exposure lol.

    Don’t recall why I chose this instead of calibre-web but it works fine for my purposes. I don’t read comics though.

    • Tsubodai@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Similar story here. Readarr (two instances, one for ebooks, another for audio). Calibre server with a watchdir to add books from libgen/elsewhere, and organising stuff. Calibre-web because trying to use calibre server on a phone is painful. WebDAV connection through phone app (Moon+) as a backup (LAN only).

      Oh, and Audiobookshelf for the audiobooks, but I generally prefer reading

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    LXC Linux Containers
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Plex Brand of media server package
    VNC Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access
    VPN Virtual Private Network

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.

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  • fireshell@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    I’m currently using Calibre/Calibre-Web and Audiobookshelf for podcasts and audiobooks.

    • pacoboyd@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      This is my setup. Caliber-Web is nice because it just points to your Calibre application database. It’s more robust than the built in web server and I can set it up to sync with my Kobo over wifi.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I just recently started using kavita, and absolutely love it. The interface is similar to Plex, if that is a helpful frame of reference.

  • X3I@lemmy.x3i.techEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’m currently using Calibre and Audiobookshelf, where the latter is basically just using the folder structure of Calibre with and additional folder for some audiobooks. Works okay but is not the greatest solution. The calibre library web interface is quite nice (not the weird VNC-style admin panel, the one on other port). People also mention lazylibrarian a lot but I never tried it.

  • Ftt7@futurology.todayEnglish
    03·
    11 months ago

    I’d like to hear some alternatives too. Calibre is fine but it’s pajeetware.