I tried that but you need a Calibre library first, and that requires using Calibre AFAIK
You can just create an empty calibre library using the desktop app and then import everything from the web UI.
Calibre-web even links an empty database in their readme so you can do exactly that without the desktop app.
It's unnecessarily annoying to set up, as the other user pointed out. But it can be set up by itself using https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/calibre-web docker, and used standalone. The only trick is needing an empty database.
Can you explain bit more please. I have calibre-web running, downloaded empty database, added some books in the same folder as database, but nothing is showing up in calibre-web gui. Did I miss something?
What about https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web?
I tried that but you need a Calibre library first, and that requires using Calibre AFAIK
You can just create an empty calibre library using the desktop app and then import everything from the web UI.
Calibre-web even links an empty database in their readme so you can do exactly that without the desktop app.
It's unnecessarily annoying to set up, as the other user pointed out. But it can be set up by itself using https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/calibre-web docker, and used standalone. The only trick is needing an empty database.
Can you explain bit more please. I have calibre-web running, downloaded empty database, added some books in the same folder as database, but nothing is showing up in calibre-web gui. Did I miss something?