Calibre plugin (or way) to generate an HTML bookshelf

[cpina]

Hi,

I'm searching for a way to generate an HTML bookshelf out of my Calibre library. More or less like a traditional bookshelf where people could see the cover and the book (not the epub itself) in a visual way... but instead of having at home would be at my homepage.

I haven't found any plugin to do it, is anyone doing it? How?

Thank you!

Carles

[theducks]

Originally Posted by cpina

Hi,

I'm searching for a way to generate an HTML bookshelf out of my Calibre library. More or less like a traditional bookshelf where people could see the cover and the book (not the epub itself) in a visual way... but instead of having at home would be at my homepage.

I haven't found any plugin to do it, is anyone doing it? How?

Thank you!

Carles

Where is your 'Homepage'?
On what OS?
Can it run a 'Serverside' app


(The 'no formats' but with covers, requires this approach) Host must allow the content server.

Make a full copy of your Library (I will call it Visitor)
On Visitor:

Select all books: Right click: Remove Books: Remove all formats

You now have a Library of empty books
This will be your public Content Server Library. Run a Calibre content server with this Library

Use a Catalog book. Right click: Convert: Create Catalog: Select book type (EPUB or Mobi. most others do not have covers).

Distribute the Catalog book (to be viewed on their reading device)

[cpina]

Hi,

Originally Posted by theducks

Where is your 'Homepage'?
On what OS?
Can it run a 'Serverside' app


(The 'no formats' but with covers, requires this approach) Host must allow the content server.

Make a full copy of your Library (I will call it Visitor)
On Visitor:

Select all books: Right click: Remove Books: Remove all formats

You now have a Library of empty books
This will be your public Content Server Library. Run a Calibre content server with this Library

Use a Catalog book. Right click: Convert: Create Catalog: Select book type (EPUB or Mobi. most others do not have covers).

Distribute the Catalog book (to be viewed on their reading device)

My webpage is on my VPS server, running Linux, I have PHP and Python on the server side. But I'd prefer if this would be a static generated HTML/JS/CSS set of files, since my collection of books doesn't change much. And that I could generate from a command line tool like I already generate some calendars and other stuff from local software.

I'll have a look at Calibre Content Server (I didn't know it), but what I've seen quickly it's not exactly what I'd like, I'd like something simpler to maintain (just a set of html files).

Thank you for the answer,

[dickloraine]

Maybe do this: Make the catalog. Then convert it to htmlz. Now you just need to unzip that to get a html version (no idea, if it looks how you want it).

[phossler]

FWIW I made an epub catalog from Calibre

There are lots of options for format and data to include when making the catalog (thanks Kovid) and since it's an eppub you can do the standard epub things like edit metadata, new cover, etc.

Converted to HTMLZ and unzipped that into a new folder

Since there is a cover.jpg and a style.css file extracted you can do a lot more special formatting if you want.

Double clicking on the index.html displays the data and covers and all sort of nice stuff

I'd don't have a server requirement so I'm happy with just the epub

[itimpi]

Calibre2opds can do what I think the OP requested.

There are options to have a coverflow view or a list view with thumbnails. You can also decide whether downloads of the ebook files are allowed.

[cpina]

Originally Posted by itimpi

Calibre2opds can do what I think the OP requested.

There are options to have a coverflow view or a list view with thumbnails. You can also decide whether downloads of the ebook files are allowed.

Thanks! This is very similar to what I wanted! I wish that would have been a Calibre plugin instead of an external process in Java but anyway this might work (it did on a quick test)