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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I tried that but you need a Calibre library first, and that requires using Calibre AFAIK

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's unnecessarily annoying to set up, as the other user pointed out. But it can be set up by itself using https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/calibre-web docker, and used standalone. The only trick is needing an empty database.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Can you explain bit more please. I have calibre-web running, downloaded empty database, added some books in the same folder as database, but nothing is showing up in calibre-web gui. Did I miss something?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can just create an empty calibre library using the desktop app and then import everything from the web UI.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Calibre-web even links an empty database in their readme so you can do exactly that without the desktop app.