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Originally Posted by jrustyw
In any case and wrapping this up, the problem was and is a problem because not all ebooks (whatever their source) come with nice, fluffy metadata and Calibre makes some assumptions about the data that can quite easily result in data loss, does not offer a very intuitive method of addressing that problem
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As pointed out already in some of the replies, calibre does not result in data loss and as far as "no intuitive method", what about the large button in calibre marked "Edit metadata"? Seems quite intuitive to me!
As for the average user being a 'hostage' to calibre, you're way off the mark. Because calibre does not touch your original files it is simplicity itself to uninstall calibre and revert to your tried and trusted folder/file structure.
However, I would encourage you to stay with calibre for a while as I think that you will find it has many useful features and a very helpful support forum. You get the software for free and you can make suggestions for its development which may well get implemented.