Troubleshooting

Well Calibre-Web is really slick looking, but I've run into two problems. The first is a permission disparity between Calibre Content Server and Calibre-Web. Calibre Server is using root while Calibre-Web is using david. I would think it's ultimately a small problem and should be able to fix it.

The second is that Calibre-Web will save your place in a book in a browser, but it has limitations. First it will not save your place from an iOS device. Like at all. Secondly it is caching it in the browser so I can't read it on one device and then continue from a second. This isn't a huge deal as I could just read one different book on each device, but I do ultimately need it to be able to save my place across devices. I imagine I could solve this by connecting an app to my server, as I've been reading on this the past few days I see most people are talking about sending it to your kindle device. I have a kindle device, so I think I'll look into this first.

I begin by setting up a one time password on my Gmail account. I then set up Calibre-Web with the email address for the kindle app on my phone. Under the Calibre-Web admin page I set up the email server settings to send email. A test email work successfully.

Then I sent a test book to my phone's kindle address. A few seconds later, there it is in the kindle app on my phone. Wonderful! That takes care of that. I also tried converting a .pdf to .epub and it seems like Calibre-Web handles that flawlessly too. Super cool!