This is full-featured lightweight book collection management service, based on Calibre and inotify. It uses a patched version of Calibre and doesn't copy your files inside the database.

• Special lightweight console version of Calibre, which doesn't copy your files, but only creates symlinks.
• A script to monitor the library directory and start Calibre database syncronization, when you complete to add book series.
• Very convenient Calibre-Web interface as a Docker-image from the Linuxserver.io.

You need to install Docker and docker-compose on your server.

Your can install this service in 3 steps:

• Clone this repository or download as a zip file: git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/artiomn/library-docker
• Edit docker-compose.yml file to configure the service for the your environment. You just need to change a few variables, which are described below.
• Launch the service, by the running command inside the directory with docker-compose.yml: docker-compose up -d

After completing these steps, you will see the web-interface on port 8083.

Variables need to be changed:

• BOOKS_DIRECTORY - path to the books directory.
• DATABASE_PATH - path to the Calibre database.
• CONFIG_PATH - path to the Calibre-Web configuration.

Additional, not mandatory variables:

• IGNORE_PATTERN - ignore glob expression passed to calibredb --ignore=.
• ADD_PATTERN - add glob expression passed to calibredb --add=.
• PUID/PGID - user and group ids.
• TZ - timezone.

See Linuxserver.io documentation.

You can see logs, using command docker-compose logs -f. If you get an an error Failed to watch /var/log/messages; upper limit on inotify watches reached!, try to increase max watches:

sudo sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288

To persist changes:

sudo echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288" > /etc/sysctl.d/50-inotify-max-watches.conf