How to Install Calibre on Your Synology NAS

Calibre is a cross-platform open-source suite of e-book software. Calibre supports organizing existing e-books into virtual libraries, displaying, editing, creating and converting e-books, as well as syncing e-books with a variety of e-readers. Editing books is supported for EPUB and AZW3 formats. In short, Calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software. It’s also completely free and open source, and great for both casual users and computer experts. In this step by step guide I will show you how to install Calibre on your Synology NAS using Docker.

STEP 1

Install Docker via Synology “Package Center”.

STEP 2

Go to File Station and open the docker folder. Inside the docker folder, create one new folder and name it calibre. Follow the instructions in the image below.
Note: Be careful to enter only lowercase, not uppercase letters.

STEP 3

Go to Control Panel / Task Scheduler / Create / Scheduled Task / User-defined script. Follow the instructions in the image below.

STEP 4

Once you click on User-defined script a new window will open. Follow the instructions below:

1. General: In the Task field type in “Install Calibre“. Uncheck “Enabled” option. Select root User.
2. Schedule: Select Run on the following date then select “Do not repeat“.
3. Task Settings: Check “Send run details by email“, add your email then copy paste the code below in the Run command area. After that click OK.

docker run -d --name=calibre \
-p 7080:8080 \
-p 7081:8081 \
-e PUID=1026 \
-e PGID=100 \
-e TZ=Europe/Bucharest \
-v /volume1/docker/calibre:/config \
--restart always \
ghcr.io/linuxserver/calibre

Note: Before you paste the code above in the Run command area, change the value numbers for PUID and PGID with your own values.
Note: Before you paste the code above in the Run command area, change the value for TZ 

STEP 5

After you click OK on STEP 5 a new warning pop up window will open. Click OK.

STEP 6

After you click OK on STEP 6, select your “Install Calibre” Task then click the “Run” tab. You will be asked to run Install Calibre – click Yes. Follow the instructions in the image below.

STEP 7

The installation process can take up to a few seconds/minutes. It will depend on your Internet speed connection. Now open your browser and type in https://Synology-ip-address:7080 Follow the installation procedure in the images below. Choose your language, your calibre library, then click Next.

Choose your e-book device then click Next.

Congratulations! You have successfully set up calibre. Click Finish to apply your settings.

STEP 8

Enjoy your Calibre!