That’s it! Calibre-web will connect to the database and you will be able to edit books, add shelves, manage users, etc. eschwartz mentions that calibre-web only accesses the Calibre data in read-only mode, which is probably true, but I don't recall seeing that mentioned in the calibre-web documentation. Since we are using LazyLibrarian to snatch and process books, our database is located where our library is. In the Calibre-Web admin page (Basic Configuration:External Binaries) set the Path to Kepubify E-Book Converter to /usr/bin/kepubify Usage To help you get started creating a container from this image you can either use docker-compose or the docker cli. I run calibre-web in a Docker container on my server, with the servers copy of the Calibre database mounted read-only into the container. This should have been setup when mapping directories within the Docker container. Upon opening Calibre-web you will be directed to input the location of your Calibre database (metadata.db). Once Calibre-web is running it will stay open in the background and can be opened using your favorite internet browser and navigating to When prompted to login, use the default values. We use the Docker version on our Linux server and you can read about how to install that here. ![]() User management with per-user permissions.We do not run the stand alone version of Calibre, but instead use a build of LazyLibrarian which has Calibre built in. ![]() Calibre-Web is an eBook viewer which uses an existing Calibre database to pull content.
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