- maxprime ( @maxprime@lemmy.ml ) 13•7 months ago
What is the difference between an audiobook and an audio epub? Does the latter contain both text and audio? Are they synced somehow?
- LaggyKar ( @LaggyKar@programming.dev ) 7•7 months ago
ePub is basically just a limited HTML page in a zip file (plus a bunch of metadata and CSS styles), and ePub 3 can contain audio and video elements embedded in the text, just like a webpage. With the most basic usage, it would just show up as an audio player in the middle of the text, no sync. But there is also a media overlay thing I haven’t looked much into that looks like it provides sync.
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 13•8 months ago
I would really love a version of Calibre that ran in a web browser instead of a desktop app
- dr_robot ( @dr_robot@kbin.social ) 16•8 months ago
What about https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web?
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 5•8 months ago
I tried that but you need a Calibre library first, and that requires using Calibre AFAIK
- psivchaz ( @psivchaz@reddthat.com ) 8•8 months ago
It’s unnecessarily annoying to set up, as the other user pointed out. But it can be set up by itself using https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/calibre-web docker, and used standalone. The only trick is needing an empty database.
- rambos ( @rambos@lemm.ee ) 2•7 months ago
Can you explain bit more please. I have calibre-web running, downloaded empty database, added some books in the same folder as database, but nothing is showing up in calibre-web gui. Did I miss something?
- Dhs92 ( @Dhs92@programming.dev ) 7•8 months ago
You can just create an empty calibre library using the desktop app and then import everything from the web UI.
- Celediel ( @Celediel@slrpnk.net ) 8•7 months ago
Calibre-web even links an empty database in their readme so you can do exactly that without the desktop app.
- aperson ( @aperson@beehaw.org ) English7•8 months ago
So you want an entirely different app then. The desktop app would have to be completely rewritten.