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Calibre

Calibre is a ebook managment system. The Calibre library needed for the calibre instance is located in the external ssd * /Calibre The ebook files are located at * /eBooks

Installation

Installed through pacman

sudo pacman -S calibre

Created the calibre library and add the eBooks folder to it

calibredb add --with-library /home/lukas/Drive/Calibre -r /home/lukas/Drive/eBooks

systemd configuration

The systemd config file for the instance

[Unit]
Description=Calibre Server
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/calibre-server --port=8180 --enable-local-write /home/lukas/Drive/Calibre
Restart=on-failure
WorkingDirectory=/home/lukas/Drive/Calibre

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target