The last few months, maintaining Calibre-Web has felt more like work than a hobby. I felt pressured and teased by people to solve "their" problems and merge PRs for "their" Calibre-Web.
I have turned off all notifications from Github/Discord and will now concentrate undisturbed on the development of “my” Calibre-Web over the next few weeks/months.
Calibre-Web is a web app that offers a clean and intuitive interface for browsing, reading, and downloading eBooks using a valid [Calibre](https://calibre-ebook.com) database.
1. Create a virtual environment for Calibre-Web to avoid conflicts with existing Python dependencies
2. Install Calibre-Web via pip: `pip install calibreweb` (or `pip3` depending on your OS/distro)
3. Install optional features via pip as needed, see [this page](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Dependencies-in-Calibre-Web-Linux-and-Windows) for details
*Note: Raspberry Pi OS users may encounter issues during installation. If so, please update pip (`./venv/bin/python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip`) and/or install cargo (`sudo apt install cargo`) before retrying the installation.*
Refer to the Wiki for additional installation examples: [manual installation](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Manual-installation), [Linux Mint](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/How-To:-Install-Calibre-Web-in-Linux-Mint-19-or-20), [Cloud Provider](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/How-To:-Install-Calibre-Web-on-a-Cloud-Provider).
3. If you don't have a Calibre database, you can use [this database](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/raw/master/library/metadata.db) (move it out of the Calibre-Web folder to prevent overwriting during updates)
5. Optionally, use Google Drive to host your Calibre library by following the [Google Drive integration guide](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/G-Drive-Setup#using-google-drive-integration)
6. Configure your Calibre-Web instance via the admin page, referring to the [Basic Configuration](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Configuration#basic-configuration) and [UI Configuration](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Configuration#ui-configuration) guides
- [Imagemagick](https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php) for cover extraction from EPUBs (Windows users may need to install [Ghostscript](https://ghostscript.com/releases/gsdnld.html) for PDF cover extraction)
- Windows users need to install [libmagic for 32bit python](https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/file.php) or [libmagic for 64bit python](https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows/releases/tag/20170108), depending on the python version; The files need to be installed in path (e.g. script folder of your Calibre-Web venv, or in the root folder of Calibre-Web
- Optional: [Calibre desktop program](https://calibre-ebook.com/download) for on-the-fly conversion and metadata editing (set "calibre's converter tool" path on the setup page)
- Optional: [Kepubify tool](https://github.com/pgaskin/kepubify/releases/latest) for Kobo device support (place the binary in `/opt/kepubify` on Linux or `C:\Program Files\kepubify` on Windows)
Include the environment variable `DOCKER_MODS=linuxserver/mods:universal-calibre` in your Docker run/compose file to add the Calibre `ebook-convert` binary (x64 only). Omit this variable for a lightweight image.
We would like to thank all the [contributors](https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/graphs/contributors) and maintainers of Calibre-Web for their valuable input and dedication to the project. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.
