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Old 08-29-2010, 12:19 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by aritza View Post
My fear is that this lack of portability of metadata has me tied to Calibre, which for all I know could stop being developed at any time (or could start charging money, maybe even a lot of money), or a product that better serves my needs could come around.

I don't see why I seem to be the only one concerned about this.
Ignorance is a powerful source of fear.

As Starson17 said about metadata

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It's all in the .opf file anyway.

You can get it in opf files, in spreadsheets (several formats) in the SQL database, etc.
I've never seen a product that makes it so easy to grab any info. OPF stands for Open Packaging Format, you can read more about OPF here or here.
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