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Create Simple Calibre Server as User Service

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This is the blog cum Notes I thought I published ages ago but it turns out I never did. So here it is now.

Warm up

  1. Install calibre package via nix or package manager of your choice sudo pacman -Sy calibre
  2. Create library at prefered location where book going to be stored. mkdir -p /home/you/library
  3. Add books to that location calibredb add /path/of/books.pdf --with-library /home/you/library

Main Course

  1. Create a systemd user service in ~/.config/systemd/user create new file called calibre-server.service touch calibre-server.service

  2. Write init script nvim calibre-server.service

[Unit]
Description=calibre content server
 
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/<path>/calibre-server --port=8180 --enable-local-write /home/you/library
 
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

remember to find the correct location of your calibre-server binary with whereis calibre-server command.

  1. Enabling the service systemctl --user enable calibre-server
  2. Starting the service systemctl --user start calibre-server
  3. Check the service running at localhost:8180 in your browser
  4. Last but not least enable service to keep running in background even after your user logged out: loginctl enable-linger username

Optionals:

Provide domain name for your service using reverse proxy

write nginx.conf file

server {
    listen 10.0.0.20:80;
    server_name library.yourdomain.com;
    root /var/www/html;
    index index.html;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8180/;
    }
}

Now simply going to https://library.yourdomain.com you will reach to the calibre server without having to know backend hostname or port number.

To Have multiple libraries

Inorder to have multiple libraries running on same server just add the different library path to the main command

/<path/calibre-server --port=8180 --enable-local-write /home/you/library/fiction /home/you/library/tech

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