Recent updates to the main Calibre application results in new requirements to do ebook conversions.

Without installing the new requirements, ebook conversions fail due to missing files:

Failed to import PyQt module: PyQt6.QtWebEngineCore with error: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or …

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I've been happy with my Calibre-web install over the past year, but recently, I ditched my web hosting provider, moving pretty much everything over to AWS.

Due to this, I needed to change the email address of my Calibre-web automailer.

I signed up for a GMX account, and configured Calibre-web to use it.

Testing, to my …

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Each Kindle has it's own email address, which exists to allow you to email ebooks to your Kindle.

The easiest way to get ebooks from Calibre-Web to your Kindle is to add your Kindle's email address to your profile in Calibre-Web.

It's easy to do, but there are a few steps involved.

Find your Kindle's email address

Log …

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Damn, that was a long, drawn out title….

Basics:

• As of this writing, I’m running TrueNAS 12.2

• While I really like TrueNAS, TrueNAS/FreeNAS doesn't support Docker containers.

• The TrueNAS team is working on TrueNAS SCALE, which is Linux-based, and support Docker containers, but it’s still in alpha.

• Once TrueNAS …

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Steps:

Create the jail

1. Name Jail and Choose FreeBSD Release Name: calibre-web Jail Type: Default (Clone Jail) Release: 12.2-RELEASE …

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