====== Calibre ======
**Calibre** is a mature but still kinda clunky program for managing digital texts. I used it to organise [[PDF]]s of essay and things, and sync that to [[qnap_ts-231p|my NAS]] so I can read them from [[samsung_sm-t330|a tablet computer]].

I've since stopped using it and started  working on [[pdf_catalogue|my own solution]].

===== Extending =====

==== Plug-ins ====

I've tried two plug-ins so far that've both been worth recommending. One for finding duplicate files, and one for grabbing metadata from [[Goodreads]]. I installed them from the built-in plug-in package manager, but here are the links they provide as their 'Plugin homepage':

  * [[https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=131017|[GUI Plugin] Find Duplicates ]]
  * [[https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=130638|[Metadata Source Plugin] Goodreads]]

==== Server ====
The two I've tried are **[[COPS]]** and **[[Ubooquity]]**.

=== Ubooquity ===
Was really easy to install via a [[https://www.qnapclub.eu/en/qpkg/206|QPKG]], only hitches were:

  * Admin page was  at a different port/address than they said ''[URL]:2203/admin'' rather than ''[URL]:2202/admin''
  * Couldn't find the address of the [[OPDS]] feed without some digging. It's: ''[URL]:2202/books-opds''

==== Clients ====
FIXME

===== Storage =====
Annoyingly, Calibre doesn't //officially// support storing it's database on a network drive.

I'm using a NAS and accessing it using SMB. The post linked below suggests adding ''nobrl'' to the mount options in fstab to stop the common 'database is locked' errors.

  * https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=149270#9

Previously I kept the library on my computer and synced it with the NAS with [[Syncthing]], so that's another option.

The only downside I've encountered is due to Linux file systems being case-sensitive and Windows ones not. So I lost a bunch of things when I wanted to fix an incorrect capitalisation in an author's name.

{{tag>software organisation fixes}}