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What is the difference between an audiobook and an audio epub? Does the latter contain both text and audio? Are they synced somehow?
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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.
I would really love a version of Calibre that ran in a web browser instead of a desktop app
So you want an entirely different app then. The desktop app would have to be completely rewritten.
I would like the ability to do a CLI-only build since I only really use the ebook-convert command. Never felt the need to "manage" my ebooks.
I'm running Calibre on the web using https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/calibre
Solved?
You can use Podman too, if that would be a problem.
Look at StirlingPDF if you want an example how to run OR are interested in a great web-UI PDF editor based off various open sourc tools, in a single interface
StirlingPDF is freaking awesome, although I don't know how it relates to the post.
https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-calibre
Run this in a docker container which exposes a vnc-style web interface.
vnc-style web interface
That's still not what I'm looking for. What's wrong with good old HTML?
Another user posted a link to Calibre-Web in this thread and I would def use that instead of this.
They are just trying to help, nothing wrong with html.
There was somebody on the Linux reddit with a self hostable ebook app just a week or so. It looked slick but wasn't really that useful for me. Might be worth a look.
That docker image does have a basic web interface as well, but it's limited to adding, downloading, and editing the metadata of single files.
COPS is cool too but it's only a download interface.