I’ve read ‘The Home Lab Handbook: Building and Managing Your Own IT Lab from Scratch’ which I would recommend to anyone just starting out in selfhosting and homelabing. Relative to that, I found a ‘course’ online (https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/#table-of-contents) that would also be useful for new arrivals.
Anyone reading any good HomeLab & Selfhosting books lately?
I use calibre to organize then i dump them into calibre-web. From there we make shelves (my wife and I) and sync with our Kobos.
Yeah, I settled on Calibre Web, which is not quite as ugly as Calibre Desktop with the themepark addon.
Before you get too far into it, check out booklore and calibre-web-automated. Just to see if ya wanna go a different way. I plan on probably switching the next time we upgrade e-reader or i have to factory wipe them. Redoing on the calibre side and just resyncing got messy fast and wife approval went way way down.
I’ll check those out. At the most, I guess I’d have to re-import the books if the db isn’t the right format.
I think my issue was that the shelves are just number based so remaking a shelf isn’t the same as the original. Def operator error. Sync still worked fine it just removed books from the shelf but stayed on the device.
I’m using Calibre web to organise books, convert format and download metadata; and then use Kavita to read my books/comics. Works great.
Theme park add on? Tell me more!
ThemePark is a docker container that has a multitude of themes for many different applications. To add the theme for Calibre, you’ll access Settings and then Edit Basic Configuration, and insert ‘theme-park.dev’ in the ‘Trusted Hosts’ slot, thusly"
That gives you a more pleasing asthetic to Calibre: theme
ETA: List of supported apps: https://docs.theme-park.dev/themes/sonarr/
I don’t use calibre web yet. I only use calibre’s inbuilt web service thing. Does theme park work with that too?
Also, I have calibre running on windows and I don’t run docker on that (for reasons). So can I use calibre web on a separate system on the network and have it connect to the calibre db somehow over the wire?
TBH, I am not sure. I think you’d have to consult with both ThemePark and Calibre docs.
Strike two for me. I’m sorry…I just don’t know because I’ve never tried to do that.
I set it up last night. Network share would be too easy to corrupt apparently, so I hustled copied over the files and started fresh. Once in a while, I’ll move files back to my “original” install.