• @[email protected]
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    11 months ago

    My Kobo Libra works perfectly with my self-hosted Calibre-Web, it syncs directly with it in the same way as it would sync with their online platform. You can also use both as it uses the later one as fallback.

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      Agree, I would also recommend Kobo. In addition, at my Kobo I can also borrow books directly from our public library for free in Sweden. Very convenient.

    • garrett
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      211 months ago

      I’ve been trying to run this with a Libra but the calibre-web sync has been borked for awhile. Kinda frustrating, tbh.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      as in it pulls everything you add to the calibre library on a schedule rather than pulling individually/manually like from OPDS? how do you pull this off?

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        411 months ago

        You basically replace the URL that the reader uses to connect to their cloud platform with the one from your self hosted instance. Then the Kobo will just sync normally like it would do with their platform, the queries not understood by Calibre-Web (usually books not stored there or requests to the Kobo Store) are proxied by Calibre-Web to the Kobo Cloud.

        More info here

    • Outcide
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      111 months ago

      I’ve tried this and get weird errors. I followed the instructions carefully (I think!), do you have to do anything special to get it to work?

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        I also use a Kobo with Calibre-web and it syncs fine. It’s been about a year so I can’t remember specifics. I remember modifying settings in my Kobo to point to my Calibre-web URL and in Calibre-web settings allow Kobo sync and then make a Kobo shelf. All the books in Kobo shelf are what it syncs too

        • Outcide
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          111 months ago

          Thanks, will try again. Maybe I just missed something …

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Not really, I did have to install and setup kepubify and i always convert the epub files to kepub manually (from the Calibre-Web page) after I upload new books, so far I only had minor issues when removing books from Kobo and suffered a random reset of the reading hours stat.

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      111 months ago

      I like mine. But I have to admit I’m not a frequent reader and only synced a few times.