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I use Calibre for loads of things, including several it probably wasn't meant for.
A lot of the uses are mentioned above - stripping DRM (off my own books - I can't use Kindle for PC), organising collections on the Kindle, managing all my purchased/free ebooks, keeping track of which books I've read etc..
In addition to my Fiction and Non-Fiction Libraries (I keep them separate so that I don't have millions of tags), I also use Calibre to organise/catalogue various other content on my laptop. The reason for this is that I much prefer to use tags to find my content, as I can get there much quicker than through a Windows Explorer set up, especially as much of the content is not year specific. So my current libraries include:
* Recipes (includes a couple of books purchased from Amazon, but mainly good recipes I've found on the internet and printed to pdf - tags allow key ingredients to be noted)
* Schooling (again includes a couple of Amazon books, but also any good homeschooling activities I've found online, or thought of myself, or downloaded from TES - generally pdf or docs)
* Teaching (I work at a tertiary college in Africa and have loads of different courses that I've either taught myself, or OH has, or a colleague, or internet articles that back up notes - tag structuring here is reeeaaaly helpful)
* Academic (articles from journals that I've downloaded and may want to refer to again in the future, also some portions of books from google books)
* Admin (manuals for anything I own - cameras etc.., plus info downloaded from the internet I may want such as HMRC forms and notes) (particularly as I don't have consistent internet access)
* Games (games / quizzes / dramas I've written or found - tagged so that if I'm running an event I can quickly find something suitable for a small / large group) - well, it's a work in progress!
* Travel (mainly maps of other places - but I may merge this with the Non-Fiction library if it stays small)
Hope this helps!
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