Linux @lemmy.ml petsoi @discuss.tchncs.de 12 mo. ago

Calibre 7.0 E-Book Manager Introduces New Notes Feature, Support for Audio EPUBs

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Calibre 7.0 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with a new Notes feature, support for Audio EPUB books, and more.

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What is the difference between an audiobook and an audio epub? Does the latter contain both text and audio? Are they synced somehow?
- ePub is basically just a limited HTML page in a zip file (plus a bunch of metadata and CSS styles), and ePub 3 can contain audio and video elements embedded in the text, just like a webpage. With the most basic usage, it would just show up as an audio player in the middle of the text, no sync. But there is also a media overlay thing I haven't looked much into that looks like it provides sync.
I would really love a version of Calibre that ran in a web browser instead of a desktop app
- Can you give a specific reason?
  
  I feel that I'm usually more upset that apps choose electron and I have performance issue because they didn't spend time writing a proper lightweight desktop application. I feel like Calibre is actually one of those apps.
  
  I could see portability across devices being useful but is the Calibre interface really going to be conducive for that?
  
  All the other services I have running are on a server in my closet, which I access with a web browser from other devices. Calibre needing to run on my workstation is a big shift in that workflow. Especially because all the rest of my media is sitting on that server.
  
  Also, UX of open source desktop apps is… lacking. They don’t look good, and they don’t feel good to use. But that might be because I’m picky and spoiled by decades of using a Mac.
  
  I definitely don’t want more Electron apps. About the only things I want to run locally is a browser, a text editor, and a terminal.
- What about https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web?
  
  I tried that but you need a Calibre library first, and that requires using Calibre AFAIK
- So you want an entirely different app then. The desktop app would have to be completely rewritten.
- I would like the ability to do a CLI-only build since I only really use the ebook-convert command. Never felt the need to "manage" my ebooks.
  
  While it isn't a perfect solution, you can run calibre-server and only close it to open the GUI when you need to convert.
- I'm running Calibre on the web using https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/calibre
  
  Solved?
  
  You can use Podman too, if that would be a problem.
  
  Look at StirlingPDF if you want an example how to run OR are interested in a great web-UI PDF editor based off various open sourc tools, in a single interface
- calibre-web is a thing.
- https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-calibre
  
  Run this in a docker container which exposes a vnc-style web interface.
  
  vnc-style web interface
  
  That's still not what I'm looking for. What's wrong with good old HTML?

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