Calibre

calibre is an e-book manager. It can view, convert, edit and catalog e-books in all of the major e-book formats. It can also talk to 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. [kovidgoyal/calibre]

calibre是一款电子书管理器。它能够查看、转换、编辑和编目所有主要电子书格式的电子书。它还可以与电子书阅读器设备进行通信。它可以上网获取书籍的元数据。它可以下载报纸并将其转换为电子书，以方便阅读。它是跨平台的，支持运行在Linux、Windows和macOS上。 [kovidgoyal/calibre]

install

# Arch
sudo pacman -S calibre
# Windows 10
scoop install calibre

Deploy with Docker compose

¹

mkdir calibre
cd calibre
vim docker-compose.yml
# Copy from https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-calibre/#docker-compose-recommended-click-here-for-more-info

		volumes:
			# Save calibre config (Including Cablire Library) on mount disk
			- /mnt/<mount_name>/local/share/calibre/config:/config
			- /mnt/<mount_name>/<book_storage>:/<book_storage>

sudo docker compose up -d

1. Cabibre → Preferences → Sharing → Sharing over the net → Run server automatically when calibre starts (On) → Start server.
2. The opds serve is on http://<your_host>:8081/opds.

config

Main window

• Calibre → Preferences
  • Look & feel
    • Enable system tray icon (needs restart) (On)
    • Toolbar → Icon size → Small
  • Toolbars & menus → Current actions:

    Add books
    Get books
    Choose library
    Create catalog
    --- Separator ---
    Preferences
    Help
    

Viewer toolbar

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1. Calibre → Select a book → View → View with calibre E-book viewer.
2. At the top of the reader → Show controls → Preferences
   • Miscellaneous
     • Show a toolbar with the most useful actions (On)
     • Customize toolbar → Current actions:

       Switch color scheme
       Toggle paged mode
       Table of Contents
       Search
       Read aloud
       Lookup words
       

   • Selection behavior
     • Current actions:

       Looup/search selected word
       Read aloud
       Create a bookmark
       Highlight selection
       Remove this highlight
       

Read aloud

# Arch
yay -S --noconfirm piper-voices-en-us

• viewer → Toolbar → Read aloud → Configure
  • Text-to-Speech engine → The Piper Neural Engine.
  • Voices → English → libritts (United States) [High quality] → Download voice.

Lookup words

Lookup words → Add sources → For example, Add:

Name: etymonline.com
URL: https://www.etymonline.com/search?q={word}

# https://github.com/Crissium/SilverDict
Name: silverdict_<dict_group>
URL: http://<your_host>:2628/api/query/<dict_group>/{word}

# https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
Name: open-webui_librarian_zh
URL: http://<your_host>:<port>/?models=librarian%3Alatest-clone&q={word}

usage

1. Calibre → Get books → Configure → Project Gutenberg (Enable).
2. Title → Entry <book_name> → Search.
3. Select a book → Enter → Check book format → Download.
4. Select book → View → View with calibre E-book viewer.

reference

• How To Install Calibre Server & Calibre Web On Ubuntu 22.04

cross-reference

• open-webui.md
• silverdict.md
• ebook-translator-calibre-plugin.md

resource

mark

• ePub Extended Metadata
• K2pdfopt

cache

• calibre-douban
• Markdown Output
• opds-reader
• WordDumb

annex

calibre_read-aloud.mp4, (bilibili

1. linuxserver/calibre ↩

2. How To Enable Sidebar in Calibre Ebook Viewer ↩

3. Adding Dictionary In Calibre Ebook ↩