Some things calibre is able to do via plugins that would be helpful to handle in calibre-web, but there's not much point in re-implementing those in calibre-web directly. Things like importing ACSM files and getting the resulting ebook directly, or importing KFX files that require extra processing. Currently, to keep the ability to use the Kobo sync service, the solution is to run both calibre-web and calibre-server and switch between them. Running calibre-server adds to smooth usability issues since using GUI calibre risks conflicting with calibre-server unless you remember to stop it every time you use GUI calibre. If your calibre library is stored on a shared folder, such as Google Drive or OneDrive or Dropbox, a conflict with calibre-server is guaranteed when using GUI calibre since the modified metadata.db is moved into place as a new file, with a new inode, causing calibre-server to be unable to continue using its existing database connection.
To accommodate using calibredb for uploads, avoiding conflicts between calibre and calibre-server, and allowing everything to happen in one interface instead of switching between calibre and calibre-web, this PR:
Adds a new setting, linked to the main upload permission, to use calibredb for uploading files. Default value, or the behaviour if calibredb is not found, is to keep the existing behaviour of having calibre-web process the uploaded books and add them to the calibre database.
Adds the location the linuxserver Docker image installs calibre to the list of paths searched for calibre binaries
Adds the chunk of code to upload() in editbooks.py to shell out to calibredb
Appends the original file extension to the temporary file path, since calibredb needs that for format detection
Some things calibre is able to do via plugins that would be helpful to handle in calibre-web, but there's not much point in re-implementing those in calibre-web directly. Things like importing ACSM files and getting the resulting ebook directly, or importing KFX files that require extra processing. Currently, to keep the ability to use the Kobo sync service, the solution is to run both calibre-web and
calibre-serverand switch between them. Runningcalibre-serveradds to smooth usability issues since using GUI calibre risks conflicting withcalibre-serverunless you remember to stop it every time you use GUI calibre. If your calibre library is stored on a shared folder, such as Google Drive or OneDrive or Dropbox, a conflict withcalibre-serveris guaranteed when using GUI calibre since the modifiedmetadata.dbis moved into place as a new file, with a new inode, causingcalibre-serverto be unable to continue using its existing database connection.To accommodate using
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