NS8-Calibre-web Application

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Inspired for by the @education_team members and this thread request here: Education applications wishlist - Feature - NethServer Community

As an NS8 Tribute to: Howto install Calibre Content Server - Howto - NethServer Community

I am Happy to Announce that we now Have Calibre We Server Available as a Nethserver 8 App

Installing:
add-module ghcr.io/geniusdynamics/calibre-web:latest 1

Access the Installed Application from the Top Right Menu, the Book Icon

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Add the Hostname Settings for the Application

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Confirm All is well Under status

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Access the Web interface:

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Default USername and PAssword
USername: admin
Password: admin123

On First Login,
Add the Database Configuration

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it is supposed to be
/books

BAsically Calibre Web assumes you already have an existing Calibre Library, Which needs to be Mounted/ Stored into the Same location of the container.

@stephdl How could i provide an easier option for users to upload their existing calibre libraries into the conatiner volume folder?

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Calibre Default Username and Password do not work
NS8-Calibre Application
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the system has LDap support

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I think someone saw my frustrations from this post here and Decided to come to my rescure.

After reading a post from here, a wonderful website by the way

I came across a tool that make sit easy to Upload and automate importation of Calibre ebooks into calibre web: crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automator: A simple tool to give Calibre-Web the Auto-Import and Auto-Conversion Functionality. Fully automate and simplify your eBook set up. (github.com)

Ill be looking into ways this could be implemented into or to work with the calibre web App we have for NS8, to make it easy to add ebooks

Any help from the community is highly appreciated

UPDATE: LAtest versions here Release Version 1.2.0 - Cover Heaven & New Super Easy Install! :tada::books::whale2: · crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automator (github.com)

Implement a Docker compose based installation.

---
services:
  calibre-web-automated:
    image: crocodilestick/calibre-web-automated:latest
    container_name: calibre-web-automated
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=100
      - TZ=UTC
    volumes:
      - /path/to/config/folder:/config
      - /path/to/the/folder/you/want/to/use/for/book/ingest:/cwa-book-ingest
      - /path/to/your/calibre/library:/calibre-main # Point to your Calibre config folder not the 'Calibre Library' folder directly
      - /path/to/where/you/keep/your/books:/books #Optional
      - /path/to/your/gmail/credentials.json:/app/calibre-web/gmail.json #Optional
    ports:
      - 8084:8083 # Change the first number to change the port you want to access the Web UI, not the second
    restart: unless-stopped
I wish there was a ns8 app for this
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Thnx a lot Martin. Can’t wait to see this improved Calibre Web Automated working on NS8.
If you have a pre- or testrelease, let me know and I gladly help testing.

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Very important question. I copied a metadata.db file into the books container. I gave this file the calibre-web1 ownership and all necessary permissions. But yet I get the error ‘cannot write into readonly database’. The consequence is that it’s impossible to upload any new books.

Like that this Nethserver application is absolutely useless and should be removed from the long list of Nethserver apps.

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Hi, there are alot of imprivements that were and have been planned for this specific application version that we need to dedicate to work on improving it, building it, and making significatn changes.

Also, We have gained alot of experience, and storage related improvements on nethserver, that we need to package and improve into this module, in relation to the ns. bear with us, as well work to get this DOne.