Overview

Calibre(https://calibre-ebook.com/) 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.

Requirements

        This image is unprotected by default __**do not**__ expose it to the internet.
        Please read https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-calibre#security for more information.

Runtime arguments

Web UI: https://[IP]:[PORT:8181]
Network: bridge
Shell: bash
Privileged: false
Extra Params: --shm-size=1gb

Template configuration

WebUIPorttcp

Calibre desktop gui (only for reverse proxy access).

Target: 8080
Default: 8080

Port: 8181Porttcp

Calibre desktop gui HTTPS.

Target: 8181
Default: 8181

Port: 8081Porttcp

Calibre webserver gui (needs to be enabled in gui settings first).

Target: 8081
Default: 8081

AppdataPathrw

Where calibre should store its database and library.

Target: /config

PASSWORDVariable

Optionally set a password for the gui.

CLI_ARGSVariable

Optionally pass cli start arguments to calibre.

PUIDVariable

Container Variable: PUID

Default: 99

PGIDVariable

Container Variable: PGID

Default: 100

UMASKVariable

Container Variable: UMASK

Default: 022

Links

Template Support Registry Project

Details

Repository

lscr.io/linuxserver/calibre

Registry

https://github.com/orgs/linuxserver/packages/container/package/calibre

Last Updated2026-05-01

First Seen2019-06-10

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