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@Ransom, is it safe to come back yet? I was hoping you'd hit me with feedback on my calibre work habits and any bad assumptions I might have made about how calibre works. I didn't expect a rant about perceived calibre shortcomings and personal aspersions about anyone, except perhaps me. Personally, I think you missed the whole point. There is other book management software, I even reviewed one and compared features with calibre in the calibre forum back in January or so when I was an even fresher noobie. I looked at several apps before realizing they might be able to do one or two things well and had simple GUIs, which I liked as a generally-spoiled Mac user, but they couldn't do a lot of things well, and that though calibre had learning curves that at first looked daunting (and some still look daunting to me), it would allow me - with some learning involved first - to accomplish a lot of things. I use it as my personal learning tutor/tutorial/teacher to learn about how eBooks work. If I wanted simple I'd use something else and not learn as much.

Edit: If any particular complexity is somehow bothersome, why do you continue to do it?

Edit2: I agree with Kovid's first post in this thread, that calibre is designed to be used by noobies and also by advanced users. Nobody says you have to use any feature.