COPS is a light alternative to Calibre content server / Calibre2OPDS.
It serves ebooks (epub, mobi, pdf and other formats).
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- HTML5 / CSS3 interface with responsive design.
- Multiple Calibre database support in a single COPS install.
- Epub metadata update like Calibre Content Server (enable it with $config[‘cops_update_epub-metadata’]) : If you fixed the author name / a tag / the serie name of a book in Calibre, then the epub you’ll download with COPS will contain the fix.
- Calibre custom columns.
- Facets in the OPDS feed to filter book list (the only OPDS clients supporting it are Mantano Reader and Bluefire for now).
- Multilanguage support: Catalan, Czech, German, English, Spanish, Basque, French, Haitian (Creole), Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Website: blog.slucas.fr/projects/calibre-opds-php-server
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Sébastien Lucas
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
COPS is written in PHP and JavaScript. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
Related Software
| eBook web apps | |
|---|---|
| Calibre-Web | Browse, read and download eBooks |
| Kavita | Self-hosted digital library |
| Komga | Comics/manga media server |
| COPS | Calibre OPDS (and HTML) PHP Server |
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