Nice but 1) doesn’t Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it’s a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
calibre 8.0
Submitted 1 month ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new
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solrize@lemmy.world 1 month ago
otter@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’ve heard Kobo is better than the other big players when it comes to interoperability with open formats / self hosted setups.
As for the servers
The main one
github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
A popular newer one
github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
Also let’s not downvote good faith comments, especially when they’re phrased as a question and wanting to learn more
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Kobo has a great balance of good hardware, good price, and good openness. It’s not perfect on any of those categories, it just strikes a nice middle ground balance to make it an extremely popular ereader for people who require the kind of openness people like us do. There’s really nothing locked down about them, they don’t do anything in particular to make it easy, but they don’t do anything to make it hard either. “koreader” installs very nicely on Kobo devices, and then you just load your books and you’re basically off to the races.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Calibre can also be a server.
solrize@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks, I didn’t know about that. I might try it.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kobo does not block non-drm. Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.
vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.
calibre-webis technically not Calibre and is written and maintained by different people, although it does use the Calibre database (and I believe it must be created with desktop Calibre initially). But it’s a good option and I highly recommend it.solrize@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thanks. What I meant is, if I buy a job book off bn.com, can I read it with calibre? Those books usually have drm but maybe calibre can bypass it.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
All the choices for “ebook stores” and ereader ecosystems are proprietary services with no self-hosting options. While Calibre is primarily a “local” tool it is a true alternative to all these proprietary services and I think it’s at least in the spirit of self hosting, if not strictly the letter.
For what it’s worth, I self-host a Calibre Portable library on Nextcloud, which enables me to access all my ebooks anywhere, and to upload new ones to my ereader from anywhere, as long as I have access to my Nextcloud. I retain control of all my books, I remote all the DRM and convert them to epub. Calibre isn’t a service on its own, but it fits nicely into the self-hosting ecosystem, and for that I am grateful.
robador51@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I would greatly appreciate a bit more detail on your setup, is your calibre library simply a folder synced through next cloud?
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Calibre can also be a server.
drzoidberg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve been using calibre with my kobo for years. There’s a remote server you can set up, but I just haven’t been bothered to set it up since my kobo has about 100 books I haven’t read yet.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 month ago
calibre is an app? i just have a docker container with calibre web for all my epub, mobi etc.since bookstack or nextcloud cant handle those. is the client app any good?
solrize@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes I’ve been using the calibre client app under Debian MATE and it’s decent. I’m a Luddite though, so sometimes I convert epubs to plain text with pandoc and read them in emacs or a terminal.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Keeping in the time honored tradition of always having an update every time I open it.
lud@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So true. But I can’t complain that the software is getting better.
monarch@lemm.ee 1 month ago
calibre might be my favorite piece of software ever made. I wish every media format had a calibre equivalent. I have sorted thousands of books and merged so many series into single files because who needs seperate books on an eReader.
fluffy@feddit.org 1 month ago
As much as i love Reading Books, I also enjoy finishing them. So more single ebooks = more finished books 😄
Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
One of the worlds greatest wonders