![]() ![]() When you’re sure of why you want to create your own e-book, you can start defining clear goals you want to reach with the publication. With a successful e-book, you have the best chances of improving your reputation and that of your web project, not least thanks to social networks and viral marketing strategies. When people download your publication, you could ask them to sign up for your newsletter and kill two birds with one stone, creating new e-mail subscribers this way. Financial gain may be a plausible reason if you are planning on selling your electronic book and also wish to integrate affiliate links. In this multi-part series we show you how to jump aboard the electronic book publication bandwagon and create your own e-book.īefore you get to the technical implementation, you should ask yourself why you want to create an e-book. Thanks to the development of reading devices with energy-saving ‘e-ink’ and the direct connection to online sales platforms, the e-book market was finally able to take off. Market relevance was first achieved in specialised publications thanks to advantages over traditional printed literature, like being able to carry out full text searches. Order management and modern logistics meant that printed books didn’t suffer since e-books didn’t become anything more than a niche product for years. The printing industry didn’t see any real threat to its traditional print media and became powerful allies with online distributors, like Amazon, who were initially specialised in books. The potential profit in the production and sales of digital books attracted numerous investors manufacturers started supplying computer game instructions as PDF files on installation CDs, and lecture notes at universities were published in digital form. I change to the Calibre directory and start the Calibre server there via Docker Compose.In 1988 the novel ‘Mona Lisa Overdrive’ by William Gibson was released on floppy disk and became the first electronic book, revolutionising the literature industry. I can also make good use of the console in this step. The correct addresses can be seen in the properties window of the DS. With the command “id -g” I get the group ID.* ports: At the port the front part “8055:” must be adjusted.directoriesAll directories in this file must be corrected. Here I use the console from “Step 1” and the commands “id -u” to see the user ID. In this new file several places must be adjusted as follows:* PUID/PGID: In PUID/PGID the user and group ID of the DS user must be entered. Then I change to the new directory and create a new file called “calibre.yml” with the following content: version: '2' I create a new directory called “calibre” in the Docker directory: ![]() The content (“metadata.db”) must be placed in the new books directory, see: ![]() Now the following file must be downloaded and unpacked. If there is no “Docker” folder yet, then this must also be created. To do this, I go to “Control Panel” -> “Shared Folder” and create a new folder called “Books”. I create a new folder for the Calibre library. I log in via Terminal, winSCP or Putty and leave this console open for later. To do this, go to the “Control Panel” > “TerminalĪfter that you can log in via “SSH”, the specified port and the administrator password (Windows users take Putty or WinSCP). The first thing to do is to enable SSH login on Diskstation. This tutorial is for all Synology DS professionals. There is already a simpler tutorial on this blog: Synology-Nas: Install Calibre Web as ebook library. ![]()
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