ASP.NET Core web-app for browsing and downloading ebooks stored in a Calibre database.

CalibreWeb works similar to the built-in Calibre content server: It displays your ebooks stored in a Calibre database on a HTML page.

If you want to give someone access to you ebook catalogue, but don't want to permanently run Calibre on your Windows web-server, then CalibreWeb is the right thing for you!

• Display cover images
• Display Calibre metadata (title, author, language and description)
• Download of ebooks in all available formats
• List of authors
• Display all books of an author

Note that you cannot use CalibreWeb to read your ebooks in a web-browser!

Build CalibreWeb yourself from source or download the latest binary release.

Follow Microsoft documentation on how to host a .NET 6.0 web-app on IIS (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy/iis/?view=aspnetcore-6.0).

Edit appsettings.json and configure the path to your Calibre database:

  "Calibre": {
    "CataloguePath": "C:\\inetpub\\CalibreDB"
  }

With "Calibre database" I mean the directory containing metadata.db and all sub-directories containing your ebooks. Important: Make sure the IIS application pool user has write access to this directory, otherwise the web-app will be very slow!