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You can probably use either.  I use calibre-web so my wife can easily push books to her kindle anywhere in the house.

But i had the calibre windows client and just point it at the same SMB share on my unraid box where the calibre db file is and it loads up fine.

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I think i have it working now.  One final question.  Is there a way to keep LL from deleting out of my Sabnzbd history?  I see it download, it gets processed then removed from my history.  I dont want it to do that.

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I do have LL config path for calibre still set the same, what path is it passing to calibredb to add?  The download dir?  The Ebooks dir(is this also supposed to point to root calibre dir?)

 

Nothing gets imported into the db by default once a download is completed, calibre renames/moves it/adds metadata stuff., or maybe im too impatient?

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Can someone help me out configuring this with Calibre?   Much like a few others in this post im lost about how this actually works.  Ive been setting up Sonarr/Radarr/CP/Sickbeard/Sabnzbd stuff for years but this shit just makes zero sense and the documentation for what directory goes where is pretty crap.

 

I want the books from LL to download, be imported into Calibre and have some way to convert/push the books to a kindle for my wife easily.  All automated, ideally she add's a book to LL, it will notify her when its done, she will go to Calibre, and push it to her kindle.  Seems pretty simple but I for the life of me cant figure it out.

 

I have two folders  both visible from my LL+Calibre docker

 

/books/Calibre

/books/LazyLibrarian

 

In LL i have my download Dir set t o /books/LazyLibrarian, this is where Sabnzbd drops books

I also have my ebook Library folder set to /books/Calibre

 

When a book is downloaded, after i force LL to post-process i end up with a folder in my /books/Calibre folder with the authors name, with the book subfolder, cover, metadata etc as expected.

 

But when i launch something like Calibre-Web  and point it at my calibre folder, or the calibre windows app nothing shows up.  If i check the library in the windows app it says that there are extra folders in my library not in the database showing my books in /books/Calibre/<AuthorName>/<BookName>

 

If i manually go into the my dockers terminal instance and run something like /opt/calibre/calibredb add /books/Calibre/* --library_path  books/Calibre/ -r it imports the books into my database and the client shows them.   

 

Why do i need this manual step?  Whats the point of giving my calibredb path inside LL if it doesnt seem to be actually doing anything with it to get books into the database?

I feel like im missing something fundamental here and this shouldnt be so complicated.

 

Thanks in advance.