E-books & reading
Calibre-Web
Browse, read and send your e-book library from a browser.
open source self-hostable Calibre-Web project · ?A web front end for a Calibre library: read in the browser, send to an e-reader, share with the family.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Calibre-Web project (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Self-hosting footprint | 256 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Kindle |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 18,102 stars · updated 2026-08-29 · Python |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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