Calibre Raspberry Pi

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calibre is an e-book library manager. It can view, convert and catalog e-books in most of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to many e-book reader devices. It can go out to the Internet and fetch metadata for your books. It can download newspapers and convert them into e-books for convenient reading. It is cross platform, running on Linux, Windows and macOS.

There is a ton of Raspberry Pi server projects that you’re able to do. These servers are typically better suited for home or development use, where you don’t expect to be getting a ton of traffic. Setting up a server on the Pi is a great way to learn more about LAMP stack, PHP, MYSQL, and other server technologies. The above rules pass all requests under /calibre to the calibre server running on port 8080 and thanks to the -url-prefix option above, the calibre server handles them transparently. Note When using a reverse proxy, you should tell the calibre Content server to only listen on localhost, by using -listen-on 127.0.0.1.

You’ve just started calibre. What do you do now? Before calibre can do anything with your e-books, it first has to know about them. Drag and drop a few e-book files into calibre, or click the “Add books” button and browse for the e-books you want to work with. Once you’ve added the books, they will show up in the main view looking something like this:

Once you’ve admired the list of books you just added to your heart’s content, you’ll probably want to read one. In order to do that you’ll have to convert the book to a format your reader understands. When first running calibre, the Welcome wizard starts and will set up calibre for your reader device. Conversion is a breeze. Just select the book you want to convert then click the “Convert books” button. Ignore all the options for now and click “OK”. The little icon in the bottom right corner will start spinning. Once it’s finished spinning, your converted book is ready. Click the “View” button to read the book.

If you want to read the book on your reader, connect it to the computer, wait till calibre detects it (10-20 seconds) and then click the “Send to device” button. Once the icon stops spinning again, disconnect your reader and read away! If you didn’t convert the book in the previous step, calibre will auto convert it to the format your reader device understands.

To get started with more advanced usage, you should read about The Graphical User Interface. For even more power and versatility, learn the Command Line Interface. You will find the list of Frequently Asked Questions useful as well.

If you have more questions, or want to discuss calibre with other users or askfor help with specific things, there are forums and other help resourcesavailable.

An e-book version of this User Manual is available inEPUB format, AZW3 (Kindle Fire) format and PDF format.

Sections

The main calibre user interface¶

  • The Graphical User Interface

Adding your favorite news website to calibre¶

  • Adding your favorite news website

The calibre E-book viewer¶

  • The E-book viewer

Customizing calibre’s e-book conversion¶

  • E-book conversion

Editing e-books¶

  • Editing e-books

The calibre Content server¶

  • The calibre Content server

Comparing e-books¶

  • Comparing e-books
Server

Editing e-book metadata¶

  • Editing e-book metadata

Frequently Asked Questions¶

  • Frequently Asked Questions

Raspberry Pi Ebook Reader

Tutorials¶

  • Tutorials

Customizing calibre¶

  • Customizing calibre

The Command Line Interface¶

  • Command Line Interface

Setting up a calibre development environment¶

Instalar Calibre Raspberry Pi

  • Setting up a calibre development environment