small_server_thingies/calibre-web

Calibre-web

• You can install with the attached docker-compose. You will only need to add a .env file to inform of the ROOT_PATH where the volumes should be mounted in the host.
• Calibre-web is initially suposed to be a layer on top of an existing calibre installation. Because of that, the container does not initialize a books library on its own. This prevents the service from working properly (you will get stuck in the first screen, being asked for a config and getting an error message constantly). To overcome this, you simply need to drop an empty calibre database in the /books path in the container. A file you can use goes along with this readme file.
• By default, you can't upload books through the web UI. You need to go to Admin > Edit Basic Configuration > Feature Configuration > Enable Uploads. After that, permission needs to be given to every user who should be allowed to upload books.
• The app allows OPDS connections from ebooks. To set it up, pass to the ebook the web URL with /opds at the end.
• Books can easily exceed the default max upload size allowed by nginx. To increase it, you simply need to put the following directive under nginx's reverse proxy section for calibre: client_max_body_size <your megabytes choice>M;