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First of all, great work and name. I hadn’t even realized that I was looking for this. Installed it on my NAS under docker. Also got interested in competitors

by yumraj 5y ago

First of all, great work and name. I hadn’t even realized that I was looking for this. Installed it on my NAS under docker. Also got interested in competitors so tried a couple. Here are my notes: 1) docker works well. UI is fine, was able to figure out without much effort. 2) not sure what is the difference manga and comics? For some reason it didn’t scan some Pdfs as manga but did as comics. 3) wasn’t able to make caliber-web docker work, but tried ubooquity. For some reasons PDFs render sharper with ubooquity than with Kavita. It is fairly obvious and checked with a few. All settings are default. ubooquity was also faster, but I prefer the UI of Kavita.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
> wasn’t able to make caliber-web docker work I done through this route before. From the best of my crappy memory, you need to make sure that you create calibre library before starting the web part. You would have to do it through the standalone app. And for docker, it kinda a fickle from I remember. you have to bind the calibre-web to your local calibre library folder. You need to enable the docker to access to that folder. It took me multiple guides to understand how to make this works.
- yumraj 5y ago
  Thanks I’ll give it another shot.
  - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
    Here a few guides that I used in the past that helps me to understand and how to set up for Calibre-Web to work with Docker. I have a guide for the Docker with local filesystem that helps me to make it work[1],[2]. I remember that Docker is particular with file path and you have to use the Docker file path convention, they uses forward slashes instead backslashes like Windows. [1] https://flaviocopes.com/docker-access-files-outside-container/ https://flaviocopes.com/docker-access-files-outside-containe... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44876778/how-can-i-use-a-local-file-on-container https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44876778/how-can-i-use-a...
    - yumraj 5y ago
      This is the error I’m running into. I’m running it on a Synology NAS. https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues/162 https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues/162 The folder and port mapping was done, I'm familiar with using Docker.
      - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
        Oh Synology NAS, I am not familiar with their and I haven't use it before. This happened in Windows in my experience. Thank you for the link! Now I remember there is one more step, I fixed it by putting the library in the root folder of the drive. That solved the issue for me. I only tried it for a day and shut it down. I am planning to get RPI and put calibre-web in it. It still in my todo list.

by yumraj 5y ago

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

> wasn’t able to make caliber-web docker work I done through this route before. From the best of my crappy memory, you need to make sure that you create calibre library before starting the web part. You would have to do it through the standalone app. And for docker, it kinda a fickle from I remember. you have to bind the calibre-web to your local calibre library folder. You need to enable the docker to access to that folder. It took me multiple guides to understand how to make this works.

yumraj 5y ago
Thanks I’ll give it another shot.
- Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
  Here a few guides that I used in the past that helps me to understand and how to set up for Calibre-Web to work with Docker. I have a guide for the Docker with local filesystem that helps me to make it work[1],[2]. I remember that Docker is particular with file path and you have to use the Docker file path convention, they uses forward slashes instead backslashes like Windows. [1] https://flaviocopes.com/docker-access-files-outside-container/ https://flaviocopes.com/docker-access-files-outside-containe... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44876778/how-can-i-use-a-local-file-on-container https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44876778/how-can-i-use-a...
  - yumraj 5y ago
    This is the error I’m running into. I’m running it on a Synology NAS. https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues/162 https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre-web/issues/162 The folder and port mapping was done, I'm familiar with using Docker.
    - Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
      Oh Synology NAS, I am not familiar with their and I haven't use it before. This happened in Windows in my experience. Thank you for the link! Now I remember there is one more step, I fixed it by putting the library in the root folder of the drive. That solved the issue for me. I only tried it for a day and shut it down. I am planning to get RPI and put calibre-web in it. It still in my todo list.