I’d like to set something up for my Kobo Libra 2 that puts together a site where I collect my reading list (good reads, storygraph, bookwyrm) then downloads those books to a local server ( readarr?). Then makes them available for my Kobo( calibre web?).
Was curious if anybody has any guides or a better way to set all that up. I really like the sites for browsing new recommendations, but it’s a manual process to get the books to my ereader. I’d like to surf and add books to my own ‘store’ I could access from my Kobo.
Jesus christ dude, how many books do you read?!
It takes me about 30 minutes to find, download, convert to KEPub and load onto my Kobo about 6-12 months worth of books. I curse the day that Brandon Sanderson entered my life. He writes them faster than I have the opportunity to read them.
This is such a fair point. What made me think of it was that I browse story graph, and add lots of books to my recommendations. Then every so often I go through that list, look up a pile of books in mam, download them, import into calibre and then dig out a micro USB to move them over.
There’s got to be a better way! Bi-annual pain in the butt is not zero pain in the butt.
Also when’s cremposting coming over? =]
Ohh I had to avoid that sub. Too many spoilers, I started late!
Regarding the Calibre web server part, if you happen to already be running a web server with PHP wherever your calibre library is, there is an old PHP front end called COPS (“Caliibre OPDS (and html) php server”) which still works and I still use, and find better for my uses than Calibre’s web server. It provides a web interface, OPDS interface, and a built in web based epub viewer.
I do happen to already run a web server for other things, so this is more convenient for me than seperately keeping calibre’s web server running all the time. But even more importantly, I like using the calibre command line tool (calibredb), and if you run the calibre web server, the command line tool doesn’t work (because calibre locks the database).
Works for me anyhow.
Not quite that good, I’m afraid. Though what I’m seeing around her about self hosting is looking appealing. Thanks to you and others I’ve found a few ways I think for the distribution part. Now I just need to find a way that will automatically download books I add to my to read list and move them to the distribution site and I’ll be in business.
