Calibre

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Access your Calibre libraries and read books directly in Obsidian.

188 stars19,420 downloadsUpdated 2y agoMIT
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Obsidian Calibre Plugin

This is a calibre Content server plugin for Obsidian. Allow you to access your calibre libraries and read books directly in Obsidian. Rearrange a comfortable layout of the workspace, you can take notes while reading, and read more books at the same time by opening more panes.

How it Works

Calibre plugin will open a Obsidian view in your workspace when you click Calibre ribbon icon. The view contains an iframe to connect to the content server. You can change the server address in plugin settings.

How to use

Start quickly

STEP 1: Start Content Server

To start the server, click the Connect/share button and choose Start Content server.

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STEP 2: Install Calibre Plugin

Just do it.

STEP 3: Open Calibre Container

Click the ribbon icon to open Calibre Container.

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How to Change Content Server Port

Change in Calibre Application

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Change in Calibre Plugin

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Manually installing the plugin

  • Copy over main.js, styles.css, manifest.json from Releases to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-calibre-plugin/.

The calibre Content server

See https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

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