Additional Notes and Features

Goodreads Integration & “Wishlist”

As mentioned before, the toolstack consists of multiple tools. The beauty of this is that it’s possible to automate a lot of things. One of these things is automatically (mostly) downloading requested releases. As there is no such thing as an integrated request-platform in Calibre-Web, Readarr provided an option.

It’s possible to import different kinds of ‘lists’ from Goodreads. Due to import constraints, the only options I will accept for now is a Goodreads Listopia Lists and Goodreads Series. If you wish to add your list/series send me a message with your respective list-/series-ID. Again, other lists WILL NOT be accepted, as they need account credentials and I will not go through this amount of trouble to add an import list.

Force Full Sync

This might be the wrong place to mention this, but it’s not really a part of the configuration process. If you ever fail to sync all the books you listed, this might be because the database believes it’s already on your device. To resolve this, it’s possible to force a full sync. In the Calibre-Web portal, navigate to your personal settings menu. First press the “FORCE FULL KOBO SYNC” button, then press the “DELETE” button in the popup.

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Error 500

If you ever encounter Error 500 when you login to Calibre-Web, please send me a message (leave a comment) at once. The database has locked and needs to be restarted. This happens incidentally and will prevent login/sync. I’ll try to remediate this issue permanently as soon as I can.

Collection Updates

Please don’t message me about a single book missing from an import list etc. As all downloads are automatically managed through torrents, the collection is limited by what is available online. I’ll try to get as much as possible, but I can’t promise I’m able to find anything and I won’t spend all day manually looking for books. You’re welcome to send me an archive with eBooks, I’ll try to import them into the collection. Also, after an import list was added, be patient. It takes 12 hours for import lists to refresh.

Reverting all Changes

There are a few different ways to revert all changes to your Kobo-device. I will only explain the easiest and least intrusive workflow in this guide. The easiest way to revert all changes is to connect your Kobo-device to your computer using a USB-cable again. Navigate back to the “#:\KOBOeReader\.kobo\Kobo”-folder. In here, rename your “Kobo eReader.conf” file to something else and change its file extension, for example: “Kobo eReader_CALIBRE-WEB-MOD.conf.bak”. Afterwards, remove the “.bak” extension from the backup you made while setting up the mod on your kobo.

If you have any difficulty reverting, please refer back to the chapter “Setting up your eReader for use with Calibre-Web”. Every step of the install process is explained thoroughly with related pictures. Refer to these, and follow the steps in opposite order. If this is not sufficient, please leave a comment.