purplecandy/calibre-zen v0.4.0 on GitHub

Calibre Zen 0.4.0, on calibre 9.15.0.

Your library can now live on a home server, and sharing from the app holds up when several people read at once.

What changed

Added

A Docker image for your home server. It serves your library to any web browser, on a phone, tablet or computer, with no desktop needed. It runs on Intel and ARM servers, can ask for a login, and adds books you drop in a folder. The Docker guide has a ready Compose file.

Fixed

Sharing over the network is more reliable. With a few people reading at once, some pages used to fail to load. Now every page loads.
Sharing no longer freezes. Changing a book while others were browsing could stop the server for good, until the app was closed. That can no longer happen.

Coming next

Sharing from the menubar. A small menubar app that shares your library with no window open is built, and comes to the installers in a later version.

The packages are calibre's own 9.15.0 builds with Calibre Zen's Python laid over them. Nothing is recompiled.

Windows. calibre-zen-0.4.0-windows-x64.msi installs and upgrades in place. calibre-zen-portable-installer-0.4.0.exe upgrades a Calibre Zen Portable folder and keeps its library. Unsigned, so SmartScreen warns on first run: More info, then Run anyway.
macOS. calibre-zen-0.4.0-macos.dmg, universal, signed and notarized. Drag Calibre Zen to Applications.
Linux. calibre-zen-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.txz or -arm64.txz. Unpack anywhere and run calibre-zen/calibre-zen. Or the Flatpak, calibre-zen-0.4.0-linux-x86_64.flatpak or its arm64 twin.
Docker. ghcr.io/purplecandy/calibre-zen:0.4.0, also tagged latest.

Each file has a .sha256 beside it. latest.json is the feed the update check reads.