2026-08-27 02:45 UTC
book pipeline help
Has anyone here had much success with automated book downloads and a self-hosted library? I've been pulling my hair out trying to get shelfmark and calibre-web automated to work for me.
I'm trying to use them for engineering textbooks which I realise is not the intended use-case, so any more appropriate suggestions would be appreciated. I want something that handles creating a searchable text layer on top on the book so I can search the textbooks more easily.
ShelfMark is having the following issues:
not connecting to annas-archive.is. I can reach it from my browser
the sources I want aren't covered by the indexers via prowlarr
CWA is struggling to ingest my engineering textbooks at all. I've just increased the time-out so hopefully that helps.
edit: increasing the CWA timeout setting let it get through the textbooks. shelfmark is my only problem now, assuming adding a text layer with stirling-pdf goes well 🤞
edit 2: shelfmark is now working (thanks to TheFerventLion below)! OCR in stirling-pdf is the last step
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@TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 2026-08-28 03:17
I’ve had success with Shelfmark, but I don’t use .is. I leave primary mirror to auto then have the following as mirrors: annas-archive.gl annas-archive.pk annas-archive.vg annas-archive.gd I’m not sure I follow what you’re problem is regarding the indexers, so I can’t help there.