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Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by thaumasiotes »

criddell wrote: post #10
blfr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I get that this is what they're aiming for but home server with Plex is justified by the massive size a video and even music collections can reach.

I think a lot more people share their music and video collections than their book collections despite the file size differences. Maybe it's because there isn't a book-Plex?

Maybe it's because music and video can be easily consumed during the duration of a visit, whereas books take much longer? "Check out what I have on the server" makes sense for music and much less sense for books.

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by roryisok »

Santosh83 wrote: post #9
blfr wrote: post #3

I love it in principle but, considering how small most books are relatively to storage space offered by modern devices, even mobile ones, what is the upside of storing content centrally instead of just carrying a copy with you?

Many of my ebooks are anywhere from 50 to 350 Mb. That adds up when you want to load many of them. The downside of course is that you need a good Net connection, unless the Calibre Content Server can be configured to do some kind of 'trimming', while serving the ebooks over the wire. Also a content server mitigates you having to manage and synchronise your ebooks in multiple places. You only need to manage one librar…

Since it's browser based you won't be loading 350mb, you'll be loading one page at a time.

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by roryisok »

robk wrote: post #54

I love Calibre and contribute recipe updates often but don't really see the value of the server. I script things to download via command line and then send to kindle over email. It's more robust than the front end and less hassle than running a server you have to use the browser to access. Given file sizes are small (this week's Economist is about 15mb) it's perfectly Fine to us email.

One guy further up the thread has 350mb ebooks

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by emodendroket »

sohkamyung wrote: post #34
criddell wrote: post #4

I've always just used Calibre because it's a nice way for me to strip DRM and then archive my books. I've never really used it any kind of active way. Since I buy pretty much everything from Amazon, I already effectively have a content server. Does anybody have a link to an online server (with public domain books)? I'm curious to see what the presentation is like. What's the typography like? Does the screen dim after…

My response is to avoid buying ebooks from Amazon if possible. Most of my purchases are from Weightless Books [1] which sells only DRM free books and magazines. Granted, this is a limited and small market (SF related stuff) but if I have a choice of getting a book DRM free from a vendor or getting it from Amazon, I would avoid Amazon, even if its price was cheaper. [1] https://weightlessbooks.com/

Whatever else is wrong with it the Kindle store is incredibly convenient in a way that sideloading books isn't. I can tether to my phone and get a book instantly wherever I happen to be at the moment.

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by criddell »

roryisok wrote: post #79
criddell wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tor doesn't put DRM on any of it's titles. For an example, look up Cory Doctorow's book Walkaway . At the bottom of the book description it says: > At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Unfortunately, they don't always tell you. If you look up Little Brother (another of Doctorow's books), it doesn't say anything about DRM even though the book do…

All of Cory Doctorow's books are available DRM free and free-as-in-beer free from his website, craphound.com He's always made a point of that

Walkaway is his first book that isn't available from his website for free.

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by zmix »

criddell wrote: post #4

I've always just used Calibre because it's a nice way for me to strip DRM and then archive my books. I've never really used it any kind of active way. Since I buy pretty much everything from Amazon, I already effectively have a content server. Does anybody have a link to an online server (with public domain books)? I'm curious to see what the presentation is like. What's the typography like? Does the screen dim after…

> Does anybody have a link to an online server (with public domain books)?

[Izzy's eBook Library of English Public Domain books](https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=en)

[Izzy's eBook Library of German Public Domain books](https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=de)

[Feedbooks' have a "Free" category in this following library](http://www.feedbooks.com/catalog.atom)

[Free books on Beam Shop](https://www.beam-shop.de/angebote-specials/gratis/?p=1) (from a quick check, titles were in English, but could be German, too, or mixed)

[Manybooks](http://manybooks.net/opds/)

There are also others but in Hungarian, Russian, Japanese languages. Besides, there is always Gutenberg.org for Classics.

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by zmix »

peternicky wrote: post #58

Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.

> I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java.

Nope, it's Python.

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by zmix »

peternicky wrote: post #58

Related but slightly off topic: Am I the only one who is turned off to calibre due to how "heavy" and clunky it feels? I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java. I think the author does great work maintaining the project but frankly wish it was more modern. Perhaps this is a good side project for me to delve into ;) EDIT: thanks to users who clarified that Calibre is written in python.

> I suspect this is due to the program being written in Java.

Nope, it's Python.

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by oridecon »

roryisok wrote: post #77
iak8god wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My response is to avoid buying ebooks from Amazon if possible. This severely limits what ebooks one can read. I used to torrent DRM-free epubs and buy the paper copy so I could support the work without appearing to support DRM. Lately though I've been skipping the torrent part and just buying the paper books.

I wonder how many people do this and if it over inflates piracy figures or physical book readership

Does it even matter when the people using these numbers will distort the facts anyway?

(this may not apply that much to books but most types of content are usually filled with DRM garbage, region restrictions, usually have worse quality and distribution methods, and they pretend to not understand why people choose to pirate it)

Re: The Calibre Content Server

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Post by criddell »

zmix wrote: post #86
criddell wrote: post #4

I've always just used Calibre because it's a nice way for me to strip DRM and then archive my books. I've never really used it any kind of active way. Since I buy pretty much everything from Amazon, I already effectively have a content server. Does anybody have a link to an online server (with public domain books)? I'm curious to see what the presentation is like. What's the typography like? Does the screen dim after…

> Does anybody have a link to an online server (with public domain books)? [Izzy's eBook Library of English Public Domain books]( https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=en ) [Izzy's eBook Library of German Public Domain books]( https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/?lang=de ) [Feedbooks' have a "Free" category in this following library]( http://www.feedbooks.com/catalog.atom ) [Free books on Beam Shop]( https://www.beam-shop.…

I don't think those are running the Calibre Content Server. I was hoping to find a live instance so that I could see what the books look like in my browser.
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