Manage ebooks (PDFs) without converting/renaming them

[delta0815]

Hi all,

this is not a bug, it's just a question to which I couldn't find an answer yet: I want to use calibre-web just as a web-frontend to show all my existing ebook. However all of my eBooks are PDFs which I don't want calibre-web to touch. It should just display them nicely in the overview. This means of course calibre-web can render the first page to generate a preview image abut I wouldn't want it to rename the PDF and also not to put it into a special directory structure.

I would be fine if I could set a directory which should be scanned (either via a cronjob or by manually triggering) and just display all found PDFs which reside in that directory. Ideally I would like to manage the metadata (the title of the ebook would be enought) manually but mainly I don't want calibre-web to (re)touch my PDFs at all.

Do you guys have an idea if this is possible?

Thanks for your thought and best regards,

quicky

[IceflowRE]

The best way is to create a Calibre library locally and sync the files to calibre-web running in a docker environment, which has the database mounted readonly.
If that sounds good and you require more information just leave me a comment.