Calibre-Web

Ubuntu 22 ARM

uv venv calibre-web-venv
source calibre-web-venv/bin/activate
uv pip install calibreweb

Install optional features:

vim calibre-web-venv/requirements.txt

# For example
# metadata extraction
rarfile>=3.2,<5.0
scholarly>=1.2.0,<1.8
markdown2>=2.0.0,<2.5.0
html2text>=2020.1.16,<2024.2.26
python-dateutil>=2.1,<2.10.0
beautifulsoup4>=4.0.1,<4.13.0
faust-cchardet>=2.1.18,<2.1.20
py7zr>=0.15.0,<0.21.0
mutagen>=1.40.0,<1.50.0
pycountry>=20.0.0,<25.0.0

cps

As a service:

sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/calibre-web.service

[Unit]
Description=Calibre-Web
After=network.target

[Service]
User=root
Group=root
ExecStart=/home/scillidan/calibre-web-venv/bin/cps
WorkingDirectory=/home/scillidan/calibre-web-venv
Restart=on-abnormal

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

sudo systemctl enable --now calibre-web

1. Visit http://<your_host>:8083

2. Login with admin, admin123

3. Calibre → Add books. You should get Calibre Library\ now.

4. Calibre-Web → Admin → Edit Cabibre Database Configuration → Select folder contains the metadata.db.

Docker compose [1] (Cache)

mkdir calibre-web
cd calibre-web
vim docker-compose.yml

Copy from here. And add volumes as books storage liked:

mkdir -p /mnt/nvme/share/calibre/library
vim docker-compose.yml

    volumes:
      - ./data:/config
      - /mnt/nvme/share/calibre/library:/books

sudo docker compose up -d

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linuxserver/calibre-web