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works better on | At the time of writing (March 2022), this works better on Raspbian Buster, than the latest release Bullseye, which is still in testing mode. Make sure you choose Buster for stable results. | ||
After flashing an SD card with your Raspbian Buster OS, we should update and then install Calibre. | |||
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== create library and add a book == | == create library and add a book == | ||
The location of the directory will be in my home folder: | The location of the directory will be in my home folder, which is /home/simoon. Make a directory in your home folder, and then enter it: | ||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash" line> | |||
mkdir calibre-library | |||
cd calibre-library | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | |||
We can use wget to download a book from [[Project Gutenberg]]; | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
wget http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46.kindle.noimages -O christmascarol.mobi | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
Then, we use calibredb to add the book to our library | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
calibredb add *.mobi --with-library calibre-library/ | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
You should get a message saying "1 book added". | |||
Next, we're going to use calibre-server to start the service. | |||
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | <syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> | ||
calibre-server calibre-library | |||
</syntaxhighlight> | </syntaxhighlight> | ||
Latest revision as of 16:37, 4 April 2022
Install Calibre
At the time of writing (March 2022), this works better on Raspbian Buster, than the latest release Bullseye, which is still in testing mode. Make sure you choose Buster for stable results.
After flashing an SD card with your Raspbian Buster OS, we should update and then install Calibre.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install calibre
create library and add a book
The location of the directory will be in my home folder, which is /home/simoon. Make a directory in your home folder, and then enter it:
mkdir calibre-library
cd calibre-library
We can use wget to download a book from Project Gutenberg;
wget http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46.kindle.noimages -O christmascarol.mobi
Then, we use calibredb to add the book to our library
calibredb add *.mobi --with-library calibre-library/
You should get a message saying "1 book added".
Next, we're going to use calibre-server to start the service.
calibre-server calibre-library