Getting started

Request a Calibre login

The library is invite-only. To get a Calibre login, ask Bennett or Katie to create one. All we need is your email and a password you'd like to use.

If you already have a Kindle, you can proactively share the email address tied to your Kindle device when you request the account — or add it later. Setup instructions are below.

Two libraries

Ebooks live in Calibre at calibre.kieffer.app. You can read in the browser or send books straight to a Kindle.

Audiobooks live on Plex. You'll need your own Plex account so Bennett can share his media library with you — no need for a paid plan, a free account works fine.

Read in the browser or on your Kindle

Once your Calibre account is live, sign in at calibre.kieffer.app and pick any book. The built-in reader works fine for an occasional chapter — but for a real read, hooking up your Kindle is the move. The setup is once, and from then on every book is one click away from your device.

Hook up your Kindle

1Open your Amazon content & delivery settings.
2Scroll to the bottom and open Personal Document Settings.
3Under Approved Personal Document E-mail List, add bennett.kieffer@gmail.com as a trusted sender. Without this, Amazon silently drops our deliveries.
4Under Send-to-Kindle E-Mail Settings, copy the Amazon-assigned address for the Kindle you want books on (it looks like yourname_xxxx@kindle.com). You'll paste this into your Calibre profile.
5Back in Calibre, open your profile and paste that Kindle address into Send-to-Kindle E-Mail. That single setting is what makes the paper-plane button on every book work.

Once your Kindle email is on file, deploying is a single click: open any book in Calibre and tap the paper-plane in the top-right. Calibre emails the file to your Kindle and Amazon takes it from there.

Link your Plex account

Once Bennett shares the library with your Plex account, you can play anything from the Plex app on your phone, tablet, or computer.

Plexworks, but it wasn't built for audiobooks — chapters, position-syncing across devices, and bookmarking are all a little clunky. For a much better listening experience, use Prologue instead — it's a third-party app that connects to your samePlex library and gives you a proper audiobook player.

Set up Prologue

1Install Prologue from the App Store on your iPhone or iPad.
2Open Prologue, tap Add Account, choose Plex, and sign in with your own Plex account (the one Bennett shared his library with).
3Pick the audiobook library when prompted. Prologue will pull in every book and remember your position per device — no more scrubbing.

A free Prologue account works fine for streaming. If you want to download books for offline listening (flights, road trips, spotty wifi), you'll need their paid plan.

Prologue is yours to set up and manage — Bennett doesn't touch it. If you hit a snag with the app itself, their support docs are excellent.

Request your own books

Once you're set up, you can request books yourself instead of asking Bennett. Head to library.kieffer.app/requests and search by title or author. Ebooks land in Calibre, audiobooks in Plex — usually within a few minutes.