bogdal/calibre-books

Calibre web server in Django

Calibre Books

Calibre web server based on the library data located on Dropbox.

Usage

1. Install the project in development mode :

python setup.py develop

2. Set your SECRET_KEY in the environment variable :

export SECRET_KEY=''

3. Prepare the database :

python manage.py migrate

4. Integration with dropbox service

Get your access token using the following command :

python manage.py get_dropbox_token

Configure your dropbox application:

export DROPBOX_CONSUMER_KEY=''
export DROPBOX_CONSUMER_SECRET=''
export DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN=''
export DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=''

# default is standard calibre directory `CalibreLibrary`
export DROPBOX_CALIBRE_DIR='' 

Go to the dropbox app console and set your webook url https://your-domain/dropbox-webhook/

5. Synchronize calibre data :

python manage.py synchronize

Each time when you change something in the Calibre application, Dropbox will send callback to synchronize data.

calibre-books's Issues

Add ability to use local CalibreLibrary

Add filters to the dashboard

Publisher, language, etc.

Add compatibility with the latest Django version

• Update other dependencies

Add ability to filter books by author

Reorganization

• Use uwsgi instead of gunicorn
• Get rid of memcached

Don't sync calibre db after all dropbox changes

Send to kindle

Show book descriptions

Add ability to choose sort method

Increase test coverage and add codecov badge

Dashboard

• Recently added book
• Search
• Cloud of tags

Improve synchronization

It takes too much time.

Dockerize project

Consider to use lightest oauth lib than python-social-auth

Covers are too big

Mobile/kindle version needs love

Add full-text search

Use py.test

Goodreads integration

Kindle's browser crashes on the login page

Pages should load automatically