BicBucStriim

BicBucStriim streams books, digital books. It was primarily designed to fill a gap in the functionality of NAS devices that provide access to music, videos and photos -- but not books. BicBucStriim fills this gap and provides web-based access to your e-book collection.

BicBucStriim is a simple PHP application that runs in a PHP environment provided by the NAS. It assumes that you manage your e-book collection with Calibre. The application reads the Calibre data and publishes it in HTML form. To access the e-book catalog you simply point your ebook reader to your NAS, select one of your e-books and download it.

Notice

This repository is not actively developed anymore. Please look at forks like https://github.com/mikespub-org/rvolz-BicBucStriim for more recent versions.

Features & Issues

• shows the most recent titles of your library on the main page

• there are sections for browsing through book titles, authors, tags and series

• individual books can be downloaded

• information about your favourite authors can be added (links, picture)

• global search

• speaks multiple languages, e.g. Dutch, English, French, German, Galician, Italian

• is ready for mobile clients

• provides login-based access control

• users can be restricted by book language and/or tag

• provides OPDS book catalogs for reading apps like Stanza

• has an admin GUI for configuration

• no support for Calibre's virtual libraries

• only simple custom columns supported

Troubleshooting

If you encounter problems, use the installation test to check your environment. Invoke this test by navigating to http://<NAS address>/bbs/installcheck.php. This test checks for certain problems, which users experienced in the past.

Requirements

BicBucStriim publishes Calibre libraries via a web server, so it requires some modules to be pre-installed on your machine. The required modules are common ones for NAS, however you should check first if your device supports them:

• PHP >= 7.4
• Web server with PHP, including support for mcrypt and sqlite3
• Optional: if PHP module intl (phpX-intl) is installed, book languages will be displayed

License

BicBucStriim itself is licensed under the MIT license, for the licenses of the libraries used see the file NOTICE.

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012-2020 Rainer Volz

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.