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Once you have the port forward configured, you will also need to use the external IP address of your router to connect to.
That is, your calibre server has an internal IP address of 172.16.89.127 and you have forwarded port 8080 on your router to that internal address. Those are examples, use the actual values for your system.
Now get the external address of your system. For instance, whatsmyip as a Google search will give you that address. 208.67.222.222 as a example. You might also check whatsmyip.org since Google has developed a nasty habit of returning IPv6 addresses.
If your ISP allows you to use inbound ports (not all of them do), from outside your local network, you should be able to use 208.67.222.222:8080 as the address for your server. An easy way to test is to turn off WiFi on your phone and see if you can connect to your server.
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