With everything configured you’re now ready to click Apply and launch your new Pi-hole container. Check out the examples below you’ll want to match the Mount Paths for the first two, the others can be whatever works for what you want to set up with Calibre: As you want to add ebooks to your library you’ll need a place to stage them before importing them into Calibre.

One final volume you may want to consider is an upload volume. The plugin ecosystem is strong within Calibre, I would suggest creating a volume for any plugins you may want to add. One for where your ebooks collection and the other for the Calibre config.

In the Volume tab, we’re going to add a few folders to be used by our docker container. Now you should be in the Create Container pop-over: Once the image has finished downloading, head on over to the Images tab and click Launch or again double click it. Select the image and select Download or just double click it. The image that we’re looking for is the official Pi-hole image, linuxserver/calibre, this one of the many Docker images offered by the linuxserver folks.

I have mine set up in homes/%MY USER%/ebooks.

If you don’t have an ebook folder in your NAS create one where ever you want.

Inside the calibre folder create a plugins and upload directory.

I always create the folder based on the name of the image/container I’m setting up, in this case calibre.

Create a new folder in the docker folder for Calibre.

Installing docker creates a docker folder at the root of your volume.

Make sure to make note of your user ID and group ID for admin as we will need that later when setting up the container.

If you don’t have SSH enabled follow this guide.

I’ll guide you how to setup the Calibre docker image, if you want to get it setup on a server or machine running linux you can follow the same steps just ignore the Synology NAS specific steps. I have used Calibre for a few years on my desktop computer with great results and once I got a NAS I wanted to switch it over there. It has been around for a while, has an e-book viewer, ability to share your library and a verbose plugin ecosystem. Image courteous of Susan Yin at Unsplash.Ĭalibre is a free ebook manager.

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