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Originally Posted by ericvb69
I'm also looking for a way of doing this. I run a Linux server for an intranet and I'd like to share my library by running calibre on that server without having to install all the GUI-related stuff (calibre pulls around 300MB dependencies and that seems overkilled just to have a http server for accessing the books database).
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Ditto to COPS or other tools.
calibre depends on its dependencies, there is no way around it. On the other hand, disk space is pretty cheap nowadays, and calibre has a headless Qt5 plugin that greatly reduces the server-only memory usage and eliminating the need for xvfb (new since calibre v2.x).