Calibre news reader

I have installed calibre on my freedombox.

I have uploaded a book (the calibre manual) to it and see that it is working. I can access the server using a web browser on my android phone and read the book I have uploaded.

There are descriptions of using calibre as a newsreader that seem to apply to stand alone installations of calibre on a desktop pc. They describe using recipes enabled by clicking the fetch button on the desktop gui. The manual describes calibre getting news items from a media news source or a blog and displaying them as a book using a recipe for each news source. The gui that the server provides does not seem to have this function.

Is there a way to enable or access this function on the version of calibre that runs on a freedombox server?

Thanks.

Ken Walker

Problem Description

Looking for help to use calibre installed on freedombox to read fetch and display news sources

Steps to Reproduce

Access https://(freedombox server)/calibre

Enable fetch function?

Expected Results

Display news source or blog as a book

Actual results

Can’t find a way to activate fetch function or set up recipe

Information

  • FreedomBox version:

You are running Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) and FreedomBox version 25.3.1. FreedomBox is up to date.

  • (from Help → About page)
  • Hardware: PC running Debian 12
  • How did you install FreedomBox?: Used app install freedombox after Debian install