Documenting the steps I took to get a Calibre server up and running on a Raspberry Pi.

Requirements

A Raspberry Pi that’s accessible from devices in the network and that’s optionally set up with a static IP and a custom domain.

Setting up calibre

Install calibre. The latest version of calibre doesn’t seem to be available in the repos.

sudo apt install calibre

Create a calibre library.

mkdir /mnt/elements/media/ebooks/
cd /mnt/elements/media/ebooks/
wget http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.kindle.noimages -O pride.mobi
calibredb add /mnt/elements/media/ebooks/* --library-path /mnt/elements/media/ebooks/

Make sure everything works

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Documenting the steps I took to set up a custom domain that points to a Raspberry Pi server.

Requirements

• You have a Raspberry Pi that’s accessible via other devices on the network
• You own a domain that you can use to point to the Raspberry Pi server e.g www.mydomain.com

Static IP

Setting up a static IP makes things a bit easier. Follow a guide. You basically have to add the following lines to /etc/dhcpcd.conf. This is just an example

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