You suggest sticking with paper books, but the accessibility benefits (ie large typefaces or screenreaders) that you get with ebooks is hard to give up. Having access to your library when you travel is also a pretty big deal. I think if there were a non-proprietary DRM system where I could give my books away or loan them to friends reading on non-Amazon devices, I would feel a lot better about it.

The website says to download the latest version of composer, but it doesn't work, you have to use 1.10.Loaning is supported as long as the other person is also using a Kindle.

The website says it only needs 4 libraries, but it needs at least these 15.

# Change these lines to reference cops instead of /usr/local/etc/apache24/dataĬOPS should now be running if you go to Some notes: # If you are adding this to an existing web server running other stuff, you're on your own # Modify DocumentRoot & directory to run Cops instead of default web page

SetHandler application/x-httpd-php-source # Modify to add index.php after index.html

# install & configure a web server, using apache in this example $config = '/media/library/' /* must end in trailing slash! */ Php composer.phar install -no-dev -optimize-autoloaderĬp config_ config_local.php Php composer.phar global require 'fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.1' In this example, I'm using apache, but use whatever server you like the most.Ĭode: pkg install -y php74-gd php74-sqlite3 php74-json php74-intl php74-xml php74-zip php74-mbstring php74-phar php74-filter php74-openssl php74-zlib php74-xmlwriter php74-pdo_sqlite php74-ctype php74-dom git wget You can visit it immediately after it starts up by going to You could run it as root to avoid having to create a user & make sure everything is accessible to it, but don't.ĬOPS does not include a web server, so we need to install one of those as well. This is probably the simplest install, there is already a package for calibre, which includes calibre server.Ĭalibre includes its own web server and starts up on port 8080. # Note that if this user doesn't have rights to read/write every file & folder in the libary, calibre-server will explode

# The easiest way to is give it the same uid as the owner of the library # Add a calibre user, needs read/write on all files & folders in the library

Cops calibre mac