Building Your Own Book Library with Talebook

Introduction:

Talebook is a simple but powerful private book management system, built on the Calibre project. It has features like book management, online reading and pushing, user management, SSO login, and fetching book information from Baidu/Douban.

Features:

• Beautiful interface: Due to Calibre's built-in web page being too ugly and hard to use, a new interface was independently developed based on Vue, supporting PC access and mobile browsing.
• Multi-user support: To make it more convenient for internet users, a multi-user feature was developed, supporting login via QQ, Weibo, Github, and other social media sites.
• Online reading support: With the help of the Readium.js library, it supports online reading of e-books.
• Supports bulk scanning and importing books.
• Email pushing support: Can be easily pushed to Kindle.
• Supports OPDS: Can read books conveniently using apps like KyBooks.
• Optimized file storage paths for large libraries, can be classified by letter or filename kept in Chinese.
• Supports quick updating of book information: Supports searching and importing basic book information from Baidu and Douban.
• Supports private mode: Requires an access code to enter the website, making it convenient for small groups to share the site.

Deployment Method:

Step One: Update Source

Ubuntu/Debian:

apt update -y && apt upgrade -y    

Centos:

yum update -y && yum upgrade -y   

Step Two: Install and Configure Docker

Install Docker:

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sudo sh ./get-docker.sh

Start Docker:

sudo systemctl start docker

Set Docker to start automatically at boot:

sudo systemctl enable docker

Step Three: Install Docker Compose

sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v2.20.2/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

Step Four: Configure docker-compose.yml

1. Create directory:

   mkdir talebook && cd talebook/

2. Download docker-compose.yml:

   wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/talebook/talebook/master/docker-compose.yml

3. Modify docker-compose.yml:

   nano docker-compose.yml

   You can modify the left port of ports: - "8080:80" to an unoccupied port.

   Step Five: Reverse Proxy to Domain

   Here we use a very simple method: Origin Rules provided by Cloudflare.
   Configuration as follows:
   
   Modify Field to Hostname, Value to the chosen full domain name, Rewrite to the port just filled on the left.
   
   Remember to resolve your subdomain to the server IP:
   Use an A record, Name as domain prefix, Content as server address.
   

Step Six: Proceed with Installation

Enter the library homepage

Upload books

Edit book information

Related Links:

GitHub Address: https://github.com/talebook/talebook