---
title: "Deploy Calibre"
description: "Your personal ebook library, self-hosted and accessible anywhere."
category: "Storage"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/calibre
---

# Deploy Calibre

Your personal ebook library, self-hosted and accessible anywhere.

**[Deploy Calibre on Railway](https://railway.com/template/calibre)**

- **Creator:** INF Labs
- **Category:** Storage

## Template content

### calibre-web https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/homarr-labs/dashboard-icons/svg/calibre-web.svg

- **Image:** linuxserver/calibre-web:latest
- **Public domain:** Yes

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host Calibre-Web on Railway

Calibre-Web is a self-hosted web application for browsing, reading, managing, and sharing ebook libraries through a browser. It works with a standard Calibre library and adds multi-user access, OPDS feeds, metadata management, ebook uploads, in-browser reading, Kobo sync, and optional ebook conversion capabilities.

## About Hosting Calibre-Web

Hosting Calibre-Web on Railway provides a persistent, browser-accessible ebook library without managing your own server. The deployment runs Calibre-Web in a LinuxServer container, exposes the web interface on port `8083`, and stores application configuration together with the Calibre library on a Railway Volume mounted at `/config`.

For Railway's single-volume-per-service model, the ebook library can be stored under `/config/books`. Calibre-Web then uses `/config/books` as the Calibre database location, where the library's `metadata.db` file and ebook files are stored persistently across deployments.

## Common Use Cases

* Host a private ebook library accessible from any browser
* Share an ebook collection with multiple users and configurable permissions
* Access books through OPDS-compatible ebook readers and applications
* Manage and edit Calibre ebook metadata remotely
* Upload, organize, and read ebooks without running Calibre Desktop continuously
* Synchronize compatible Kobo devices with your self-hosted library

## Dependencies for Calibre-Web Hosting

* A persistent Railway Volume mounted at `/config`
* A valid Calibre library containing `metadata.db`
* LinuxServer Calibre-Web container image
* Railway public networking routed to port `8083`
* Optional Universal Calibre Docker Mod for ebook conversion tools

### Implementation Details

The recommended Railway configuration uses:

```env
PORT="8083" # Railway public HTTP target port; Calibre-Web listens on 8083
PUID="1000" # User ID used by LinuxServer for application file ownership
PGID="1000" # Group ID used by LinuxServer for application file ownership
TZ="Asia/Jakarta" # Container timezone
RAILWAY_RUN_UID="0" # Allow LinuxServer initialization to access the Railway-mounted volume
DOCKER_MODS="linuxserver/mods:universal-calibre" # Add Calibre ebook conversion binaries
```

Mount the Railway Volume at:

```text
/config
```

Use the following path as the **Location of Calibre database** inside Calibre-Web:

```text
/config/books
```

A typical persistent directory structure looks like:

```text
/config
├── app.db
├── calibre-web.log
└── books
    ├── metadata.db
    ├── Author Name
    └── Ebook Files
```

Calibre-Web does not natively require PostgreSQL or Redis. Its application configuration uses SQLite, while the ebook library uses the standard Calibre `metadata.db` database.

## Why Deploy Calibre-Web on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Calibre-Web on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.


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