My goal was to move my books onto the same instance where I installed DokuWiki, then configure Calibre to (securely, via TLS and password protection) serve up my books in the browser. Well, since I've been on this kick to take more control of my data, doing things like dumping Facebook and moving all my notes and documents off of Google and into my own secure DokuWiki instance, I thought I'd take a stab at installing Calibre server. The files (your 'library') still need to be stored somewhere, and I've been using Google Drive so I can sync between machines. You get full-text search, filtering by tags, authors and more, and it displays a nice cover image for you while you browse. Calibre lets you edit the metadata stored with a file, and will pull in information from multiple sources for you. I've used the desktop clients for both Windows and OSX, and while it's a little old-fashioned looking, it has some extremely powerful features. )įor a long time, I've been using Calibre to keep my e-books and other electronic documents organized (epub, pdf, etc). Maybe prefer the EPUB format with the server, resorting to PDF only when absolutely necessary? The UI (especially while reading a book) probably won't win any beauty awards, but it's a really nice tool. There are configurations for adding an SSL certificate, setting up user accounts, and disabling guest access, which makes it a really secure browser.I setup the server on a home PC, and while the graphics for some of the PDFs I uploaded look pretty wonky, most of the books I checked out look fine. April 2020: Calibre is under constant development, and since I wrote this a couple years ago I see options that I didn't notice back then.

Calibre server debug mode