Ok, Calibre works on FreeBSD except it doesn't seem to work with the device via devd. So I have to manually mount my Sony reader with with the CAM (common Access Method User Library) subsystem and the dev on a mount point to put books on it. This is all fine and dandy except I dunno how to deal with the metadata this way. I already have metadata on the device from past calibre usage on a Windows machine and adding a new metadata file for one book or a few books doesn't seem like a good idea. I admit I don't know how the metadata file works to well so I'm a bit confused. Maybe you guys can give me some tips on how to manage it manually ? Otherwise I'll just have to load the new books on manually with no metadata (hence no grouping via tags etc..). I will say I have donated money to the Calibre project in the past but I will not do so in the future until it is fully working on FreeBSD. I also have ideological problems with the GPLv3 license that Calibre is licensed under. I like the BSD, MIT, ISC and Apache OpenSource licenses but not the various iterations of the GPL.
My system :
FreeBSD blackhole.hvc.rr.com 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #9: Tue Nov 23 22:19:28 EST 2010
kevin@blackhole.hvc.rr.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/ELITE i386
