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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
Calibre can also be a server.
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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
Calibre can also be a server. And you can still put DRM free books on your Kobo device.
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Calibre can also be a server.
Thanks, I didn't know about that. I might try it.
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Thanks, I didn't know about that. I might try it.
GL! One of my favorite open source projects!
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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
Kobo does not block non-drm. Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.
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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
I've been using calibre with my kobo for years. There's a remote server you can set up, but I just haven't been bothered to set it up since my kobo has about 100 books I haven't read yet.
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One of the worlds greatest wonders
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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
I've heard Kobo is better than the other big players when it comes to interoperability with open formats / self hosted setups.
As for the servers
The main one
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
A popular newer one
https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
Also let's not downvote good faith comments, especially when they're phrased as a question and wanting to learn more
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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
calibre is an app? i just have a docker container with calibre web for all my epub, mobi etc.since bookstack or nextcloud cant handle those.
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Nice but 1) doesn't Kobo use DRM? 2) I had thought selfhosted was about server apps. Calibre is great but it's a client app. Should this post be in a different group?
All the choices for "ebook stores" and ereader ecosystems are proprietary services with no self-hosting options. While Calibre is primarily a "local" tool it is a true alternative to all these proprietary services and I think it's at least in the spirit of self hosting, if not strictly the letter.
For what it's worth, I self-host a Calibre Portable library on Nextcloud, which enables me to access all my ebooks anywhere, and to upload new ones to my ereader from anywhere, as long as I have access to my Nextcloud. I retain control of all my books, I remove all the DRM and convert them to epub. Calibre isn't a service on its own, but it fits nicely into the self-hosting ecosystem, and for that I am grateful.
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I've heard Kobo is better than the other big players when it comes to interoperability with open formats / self hosted setups.
As for the servers
The main one
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
A popular newer one
https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
Also let's not downvote good faith comments, especially when they're phrased as a question and wanting to learn more
Kobo has a great balance of good hardware, good price, and good openness. It's not perfect on any of those categories, it just strikes a nice middle ground balance to make it an extremely popular ereader for people who require the kind of openness people like us do. There's really nothing locked down about them, they don't do anything in particular to make it easy, but they don't do anything to make it hard either. "koreader" installs very nicely on Kobo devices, and then you just load your books and you're basically off to the races.
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All the choices for "ebook stores" and ereader ecosystems are proprietary services with no self-hosting options. While Calibre is primarily a "local" tool it is a true alternative to all these proprietary services and I think it's at least in the spirit of self hosting, if not strictly the letter.
For what it's worth, I self-host a Calibre Portable library on Nextcloud, which enables me to access all my ebooks anywhere, and to upload new ones to my ereader from anywhere, as long as I have access to my Nextcloud. I retain control of all my books, I remove all the DRM and convert them to epub. Calibre isn't a service on its own, but it fits nicely into the self-hosting ecosystem, and for that I am grateful.
I would greatly appreciate a bit more detail on your setup, is your calibre library simply a folder synced through next cloud?
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I would greatly appreciate a bit more detail on your setup, is your calibre library simply a folder synced through next cloud?
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Kobo does not block non-drm. Calibre is used as a server all the time, see calibre-web.
Thanks. What I meant is, if I buy a job book off bn.com, can I read it with calibre? Those books usually have drm but maybe calibre can bypass it.
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I've heard Kobo is better than the other big players when it comes to interoperability with open formats / self hosted setups.
As for the servers
The main one
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web
A popular newer one
https://github.com/crocodilestick/Calibre-Web-Automated
Also let's not downvote good faith comments, especially when they're phrased as a question and wanting to learn more
I didn't downvote anything fwiw.
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calibre is an app? i just have a docker container with calibre web for all my epub, mobi etc.since bookstack or nextcloud cant handle those.
is the client app any good?Yes I've been using the calibre client app under Debian MATE and it's decent. I'm a Luddite though, so sometimes I convert epubs to plain text with pandoc and read them in emacs or a terminal.
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I didn't downvote anything fwiw.
I should have specified, people we're downvoting you
But looks like the score is positive again
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Thanks. What I meant is, if I buy a job book off bn.com, can I read it with calibre? Those books usually have drm but maybe calibre can bypass it.
Oh yeah, sorry. There is some vendor lock-in with all bookstores, but kobo looks the other way.
I have calibre-web setup with kobo sync, so calibre-web pretends to be part of the kobo store to my reader and I'm able to add non-drm books to my reader while still using the kobo store if I like.
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Oh yeah, sorry. There is some vendor lock-in with all bookstores, but kobo looks the other way.
I have calibre-web setup with kobo sync, so calibre-web pretends to be part of the kobo store to my reader and I'm able to add non-drm books to my reader while still using the kobo store if I like.
Thanks yeah I don't have a kobo reader so was asking if there was a way to read paid-for kobo downloaded books that have drm, similar to how decss lets you watch DVDs that you bought. I don't mind paying for books but don't want a locked down reading device with it's own crappy software and possible invasive phoning home.
