Sorry, Firefox, but with all the stuff I need to work installed, you’re so slow as to be unusable.
I’ve been using Google Chrome as my primary browser for the last few months.
#Calibre app mac mac os#
Well, this is where Mac OS X’s launchd comes in. I also use Calibre’s monitoring of a folder, so I need the actual program itself to launch at boot, so that takes care of the first library.
#Calibre app mac mac os x#
Now, for the first library, I just have Mac OS X launching Calibre automatically, from the Login Items preferences in Users and Groups. So now you have this server, but you don’t want to keep a shell window open with it just to keep the server running, and you want it to start back up when you reboot. Just be sure to increment the port number for each additional server you run. You can do this for as many libraries as you like. Open a browser to and you should see your second library. Note that I incremented the port number from the initial server above. Where Library2 is the name of the second virtual library you created above. calibre-server -p 8082 -virtual-library=Library2 Now it gets tricky (if you’re not used to the shell, that is). Then click “Start Server.” Wait a few seconds, then click “Test Server.” This should open a browser window and you should see a page that lets you navigate only your first library. Find the “Virtual Library to Apply” setting and select your first library. Note the server port (default is 8081), because you’ll need that in just a few minutes. In the Preferences window, find “Sharing over the net” and open that preference pane. To do this, go to Preferences menu, then Preferences (again). Next, set up your first server using the GUI. One thing to note, any library other than the initial one should have no spaces in the name. Start by creating two (or more) virtual libraries within Calibre. But I still want to be able to access them myself from my “private reserve collection.”įortunately, with a little bit of work, you can do that under Calibre. Namely, I don’t want all of my books to be publicly available, while still providing a subset of my library for visitors to browse and use. If you have an OPDS-compatible reader (I use Marvin), you can browse and download from your library directly on your device, basically creating your own private eBook cloud.īut, this presents a little bit of an issue. One of the nice things that Calibre includes is a built-in web server that can serve books via OPDS. Seriously, it’s such a great program whose only fault is its terrible engineer UI. So there’s this program out there called Calibre which, despite it’s pretty terrible UI, is pretty much the gold standard for managing eBooks.
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