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:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database
37 mentions on Hacker News by 32 people: 2 stories, 35 comments · first 2017-12-11 · latest 2025-08-10
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…audio version of it, and Audiobookshelf serves them. Great solution for the hearing impaired. [0] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web [1] https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
comment by m_sahaf · 2025-08-10 · in Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text -
…e-reader using KOreader. Also, turning pages is faster than with the stock reader of the device. https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by ZeWaren · 2025-04-01 · in KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader -
Kobo Sync as it's called in the documentation ( https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio... ) works very well, and is very easily enabled (updating a single line in a config file on the ereader that appears when you…
comment by vincentkriek · 2025-03-21 · in Calibre 8.0 -
…a secure connection with your calibre-web instance, but you could also use self-signed certs 3. https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio... adding books to calibre-web will cause them to appear on the device the next…
comment by fvrther · 2025-02-17 · in All Kindles can now be jailbroken -
…an iPad. It’s not immediately obvious how to access it, but here’s a GitHub issue with good info: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/issues/2103
comment by bodhi · 2024-06-26 · in From RSS to My Kindle -
…Or you can host your own "Kobo store" using calibre web and use that to sync your books https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...
comment by kaanyalova · 2024-04-12 · in Rakuten Kobo is partnering with iFixit to repair the Kobos -
…provide powerful web interface. The project and its maintainer deserve some love and support. [0] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by m_sahaf · 2023-11-18 · in Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0 -
Calibre Web: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by metatranca · 2023-08-30 · in Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader -
…the page progress like calibre-web, but it wasn't ideal for me or conducive to what I look for: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by mickelsen · 2023-06-25 · in Zotero Better Notes – Knowledge management inside Zotero -
This one https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web ? It does indeed look a lot neater.
comment by chuchana · 2023-04-16 · in Latest Kitty terminal release features SRGB correct linear gamma blending -
There is calibre-web[1] which some might prefer. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by sidmitra · 2023-01-27 · in Foliate – A simple and modern eBook viewer for Linux desktops -
…may 2022) and doesn't always assume the correct epub encoding, which can insert artifacts (eg see https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/issues/2508 ).
comment by cosentiyes · 2022-12-29 · in It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it -
…that right, but it's doable. Its wiki is fairly good and usually answers all the questions I have: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...
comment by input_sh · 2022-07-11 · in New in Calibre 6.0 -
…a large collection or a small memory Kobo. The guide on setting up the Kobo sync feature is here: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/wiki/Kobo-Integratio...
comment by frameset · 2022-07-11 · in New in Calibre 6.0 -
…are some serious flaws with both it and its maintainer. I've mostly moved to using [Calibre Web]( https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web ) which is a software intended as a companion, but I use it almost exclusively. It has a web…
comment by frameset · 2022-07-11 · in New in Calibre 6.0 -
…on desktop, I just type that in a terminal and it's immediately synced to my online library. [0] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web PS: Top marks also to Calibre Dev for actually spelling the name of the app properly. It gladdens my…
comment by Normille · 2022-07-11 · in New in Calibre 6.0 -
…it doesn't have full-text search inside the content of the books though, unlike google books. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by natrys · 2022-07-04 · in Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen) -
Self-host libgen [1]. Then run https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web or https://www.kavitareader.com/#home over the top. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21692222
comment by Gatsky · 2022-02-04 · in An 8-year-old slid his handwritten book onto a library shelf -
…to kobo) so whenever I sync my kobo, it gets any new books from my calibre library over wifi. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by Sparkle-san · 2022-01-22 · in Kobo unveils Sideload Mode to their e-readers -
…3) https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues 4) https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/issues/1527
comment by yumraj · 2021-12-01 · in Ask HN: What are these low quality “code snippet” sites? -
…it can act as a Kobo sync server. It makes getting my entire library onto my e-reader a breeze. 0: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by AcidBurn · 2021-04-27 · in Calibre – E-Book Management -
I prefer calibre-web[1] and it is under active development. [1]: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by stinkytaco · 2021-04-27 · in Calibre – E-Book Management -
…It's able to tie into calibre and push books to kobo devices through the built-in sync command. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by Sparkle-san · 2021-01-17 · in E Ink has developed a 2nd generation Advanced Color E-Paper -
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web It doesn't do all that calibre does obviously but it does most of what I need. It's not per see a fork as it only uses the same database formats and directly call calibre for conversion but it's as…
comment by brmgb · 2020-09-26 · in Calibre 5.0 -
…of books. It's a great web adoption of calibre. I hope Calibre 5.0 gets merged into it soon. https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by underlines · 2020-09-25 · in Calibre 5.0 -
…be happier with the workflow. Only downside: import of these pdfs took almost a whole day. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by xiconfjs · 2020-09-25 · in Calibre 5.0 -
…do use a Calibre library, Calibre Web [0] has a (IMO) fairly decent browser-based ebook reader [0]: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by efreak · 2020-02-10 · in Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu -
I run it on a server and use calibre-web as a frontend. Has a nice UI and works well for my purposes: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by zacmps · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0 -
Check out Calibre-Web ( https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/ ). I'm only mentioning it because you've mentioned Plex, because it comes with a theme that's a clone of Plex: https://github.com/leram84/layer.Cake/tree/master/caliBlur
comment by input_sh · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0 -
…wikipedia page it lists quite a few Calibre related applications which could do what you want. [0]: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by Hitton · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0 -
…my Kobo to it to grab books. I run it on a headless server, and never interact with Calibre UI. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by tomlong · 2019-10-04 · in Calibre 4.0 -
…touch calibre itself. It's pretty easy to get set up running headlessly on a server somwhere. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by tomlong · 2019-07-09 · in Foliate – A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer -
…- https://concourse-ci.org/ - https://varnish-cache.org/intro/ - AFP/NFS/samba for file sharing - https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web - web UI for calibre ebooks - https://jupyter.org/ for python scripts and web scraping -…
comment by smivan · 2019-07-03 · in Ask HN: What are some fun projects to try out on a spare Linux file server? -
…to edit the code for the bots/projects I host from the browser itself) Calibre library front end: https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web Pastebin: https://github.com/LINKIWI/modern-paste (never use it) Linkshortener:…
comment by pixelHD · 2018-05-14 · in Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting? -
…I don't know what it is about the structure of this file that is so resistant to be parsed. [1] https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
comment by rkachowski · 2017-12-11 · in Show HN: LibreRead 1.0 – Self-Hosted Free Ebook Reader