Apps / Media
Ebooks
A library and a reader for it
Calibre-Web puts a browsable, searchable front end on a Calibre library and sends books straight to a Kindle by email. Kavita is the better reader — a genuinely good in-browser one — and handles comics and manga, which Calibre never did well. They read the same folders, so running both costs very little.
CategoryMedia
Memory~400MB
Module
ebooksInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install ebooksWhere to open it
| Service | Port | First login |
|---|---|---|
| Calibre-Web Calibre library front end | :8083 | Ships with admin / admin123 built in. Change it immediately — this is a default, not a generated password. |
| Kavita Ebook, comic and manga reader | :5002 | The first account you create on the first visit becomes the admin. |
Open it at your box's address with that port — the dashboard links to it directly once it is running.
Good to know
- Calibre-Web needs an existing Calibre metadata.db in the books folder — it reads a Calibre library, it does not create one. Kavita just reads folders
- Calibre-Web's default login is admin / admin123. Change it on the first visit, before anything else
- Send-to-Kindle needs an SMTP server filled in under Calibre-Web's admin settings; without it the button is there and silently does nothing