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Looks like Calibre was never mentioned in any FCM before.
I own quite a lot of books and even more eBooks. To keep some overview, I use Calibre. I add lots of things to my Calibre-library: • eBooks • printed books (my library: covers and contents) • manuals (installation, user, reference) • patient instruction leaflets from pills and medicine (scanned) • journals (whole magazines or single articles, from the internet or scanned) • pictures (old maps, drawings) • interviews • tutorials (PC, Linux, guitar, photography, …) • recipes • DVD (covers) … and this in three different languages (German, English and Portuguese).
Sure, adding keywords or indexes is quite some work. But if I need the manual of some motherboard, or information on how to replace the power-supply of my microserver … everything is literally right on my fingertips. Or finding all Full Circle Magazines containing something about GIMP … no problem.
Calibre automatically adds a picture of each item. Sometimes there is no picture available, or the pictures are of different sizes.
Therefore I replace the pictures by a standard-sized picture, from the file itself or by searching the internet. That way, I get a nice overview, instead of a quite chaotic one.
Recently I added the location/shelf of my real books. Now I no longer spend time searching for a book on my bookshelf.
I like the search-facility: you may search for a word in titles and index, or for specific keywords, by autor, publisher, language.
And something important: I never had any software problems with Calibre.
One warning: DRM is not supported. For these eBooks I use a Windows laptop. Maybe I will create some «links» in Calibre sometime.