![]() ![]() The user interface for our personal online Ebook collection will be provided by a little PHP program called COPS, and the author of this program provides a demonstration of this at his website, here. I often feel that it helps to be able to see and use an end product so that I can see where I’m going with something before I delve too far into it. A demonstration of what we’re trying to achieve It just takes a few minutes and only needs to be set up once. This will allow you to create a simple username and password which will be required to access your library. ![]() htaccess file which you will place on your library’s web space. This will be easily solved by creating a. Your Ebook collection is okay to be free to you, both in terms of liberty and cost, but you don’t want every man and his dog getting access to your Ebook collection. Okay, so we will need to take a small precaution here. You won’t be locked in to any Ebook provider. Nobody will tell you which books you can host and which you cannot. You will be able to access your entire Ebook collection, anywhere and at any time. This means you will be able to read your ebooks on any device with an internet browser or standard Ebook reader application. The synchronised calibre library will be ‘served’ (made available on the web) using a program called COPS, which is able to serve a calibre library using a web based interface and also standard (ODPS) Ebook library interfaces. This synchronisation, using Google Drive, will help you to keep an up-to-date Calibre Library that has all your latest books, book covers and meta data on your Linux server. ![]() At your Linux server end, you will install a command line google drive client which will allow you to pull the synchronised Calibre library down to the server and keep up to date with any changes made on your local machine. In this way any changes you make to your Calibre library, now or in the future, will be automatically synchronised with cloud storage. The general idea is that you will create a Calibre library on your local computer (or perhaps you already have an existing Calibre library) and then synchronise it using Google Drive (or you can use a cloud storage provider of your choice, the concept is the same). This is a short tutorial to show you how to host a Calibre library on a Linux server with the help of Google Drive and a nifty php program called COPS. Introduction Free your Ebook collection!!!Īre you tired of being locked in to commercial Ebook software such as Apple iTunes ( shudder), Google Books or Amazon Kindle? Would you like to take complete control of your Ebook collection and host it yourself, giving you the ability to serve whatever Ebooks you want at any time and at no extra charge? You’re not alone. ![]()
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