Go to Calibre, choose “Preferences” and “Change calibre behavior.”.

Calibre is a e-book management app for desktop use.Set up and make sure Calibre server is running In short, Calibre-web is just a nice frontend for Calibre. Linuxserver.io does provide images for both Calibre and Calibre-web, which i haven't tried. Yes, a desktop app, not a web app.Ĭompounding the fact, Readarr, an automatic e-book downloader, specified the needs for Calibre Content Server, which is only availabe in Calibre, the desktop app.

Calibre-web is actually just a nicer front-end that you can expose to web browser, while Calibre is a desktop app to manage your e-book collection. Which is weird, since Calibre-web is just a pretty looking Calibre right? Turns out you need to generate one on the Calibre container. Looking at documentation, it recommends /book path as the location of the database.īut it founds nothing. After logging in, it prompts path to Calibre database.

Install went okay, since the fact that to start the container it took almost full two minutes that made me frantically looking at my compose file looking for mistakes. When comparing the two, i see that Calibre-web has a much modern interface, compared to Calibre website which honestly looks like a antique website. Folks over on Linuxserver Awesome List have recommendation to manage your e-book collection, that is, Calibre and Calibre-web. And following my self-hosting excitement, naturally i'm interested in managing my (e-)books. First of all, shoutout to you guys on Linuxserver for maintaining such a high-quality list of Docker images.īooks always have a special place in my heart.

Calibre web port