Making Calibre server a background service.Creating an ebook library, or importing an existing one.We’ll also take a look at how to use the calibredb command to create, customize, and maintain your ebook database right from the server. In this tutorial we’ll look at how to install, set up, and use Calibre on a Ubuntu 14.04 server.
It also has a mobile-friendly site built in, making it easy to download books straight to an e-reader – even to ones with only the most basic web functionality.įor example, Calibre’s browser works with the Kindle Touch, which can download books directly even though the device only has an e-ink display and an experimental browser. The server includes a simple and elegant browser front-end that allows you to search for and download books from your library. And if you go traveling, you don’t need to worry about taking your ebook collection with you! Keeping your ebooks on a server is great, as you aren’t reliant on having the same reading device with you whenever you want to read. I always ask for an epub but I often get a mobi or pdf format of an e-book and I use Calibre to convert it to epub which is the format used on my e-reader.Calibre is a free and open source ebook manager.Īlthough Calibre is probably better known for its desktop client, it can also act as a powerful server, allowing you to access your ebooks from anywhere in the world (or share your collection with friends). If you can’t find a cover you like or it doesn’t generate one, you can also just save one you have found on your computer and choose Browse and then select that cover where you saved it on your computer. If you then choose DOWNLOAD METADATA, the system first looks for a book description on Google and Amazon and then for a cover. Now back to the Calibre screen: if you go into EDIT METADATA (second icon of the left) of The Breakdown and choose Edit Metadata Individually (you can also Edit in Bulk) then you get the next screen: It’s a special folder with all the authors listed alphabetically, which looks nice right? You can see what it looks like in your directory on your computer here. You can organize your books any way you want, you can add tags that you define, add a rating, or just look at them by date like I do.
Once you’ve downloaded this program you can add your books with a drag and drop or you can add multiple books from a directory by clicking on the first icon, Add Books. I got an interesting question recently on how I add covers to the ARC’s I get that come without a cover and today I’ll tell you how I add them.įirst of all, my library on my computer is organized with a FREE program called Calibre.
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