#STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO CALIBRE SERVER HOW TO#
#STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO CALIBRE SERVER UPDATE#
#STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO CALIBRE SERVER MANUAL#

Use the radio option Use the previously existing library at the new location.Find/enter the path to your “friend-library”.In the drop down menu, click Switch/crete library.In Calibre, click the menu triangle next to the “calibre-library” button.Note: For this guide I am assuming you put it next to your “calibre-library” and named it “friend-library” Get the copy of your friends library somewhere that calibre can get access to it.WARNING: Backup your stuff first or scream something like “JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL” then do it.

#STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO CALIBRE SERVER HOW TO#

Calibre can import that into your library, but it doesn’t make that very clear on how to do that. You want to add it to your library without wrecking all your hard work. So your super chill friend already has a large and well organized library that they shared with out.

If you are paranoid like me, go back to Calibre web interface and it usually shows up as the first row in the list of books.

Make sure the blue checkbox on the left is ticket for every book you want to import.

Note: Hover over Red Exclamation marks for details on problems.

Make sure the columns for Author and Book are correct.

Click Interactive Import at the bottom.

In the new window, navigate to the directory where the book is.

#STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO CALIBRE SERVER MANUAL#

On the left open Wanted, then on the top click Manual Import.

Note: Green checkmark indicates you already have it in the DB

Find the author & book and add it to the DB by clicking on the picture.

Note: I found you need to add the author/book metadata first. So you just downloaded a book from into your download area. You will also need to configure Indexers and Download Clients, but any guides for Sonarr & Radarr should be applicable to this area. These are the things I set, everything else was left default:

Click the big plus sign to add a new entry.

Settings -> Media Management is where you connect Reader to Calibre.

Restart the docker to finalize all the settings.

In the Advanced tab, add the Reader Docker IP to Allow un-authenticated connections from specific IP addressed to make changes.

Take note of the port number on this tab.

In the Main tab, enable Run server automatically when calibre starts.

In the new window under Sharing, open Sharing over the net.

In the top row of icon open Preferences.

Once you can login you need to make sure Calibre will allow Readarr to add books to it. I forgot what I put for the initial wizard, but your smart I’m sure you’ll figure something out. Once deployed get your container IP address. Normally I just use “:latest” tag, but the best you can get is “:unstable” with this one.įor the ENV I just followed the instructions from the link above.

The most trafficked image appears to be: Other than that you need to add this ENV value: Make sure you don’t skip of the password setup instructions. I don’t understand why this doesn’t work in the default bridge network, but if you want to learn more: If you setup new bridge network and make the dockers part of that network, you can use the docker name for a hostname instead of using IPs.

#STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO CALIBRE SERVER UPDATE#

Note: Readarr is very raw and requires rebuilding your DB with every update right now. I setup this with both running in Docker with Portainer for management. If you like ebooks and want a solution similar to Sonnar/Radarr and Plex this is one way to do that. Warning: This post is a WIP and half written from memory.

Step by step guide to calibre server