I am primarily using Calibre to organise and manage my eBooks to facilitate reading them. I therefore find metadata fields like series and index to be of extreme importance. Other fields like publication date are of only minor interest from that perspective. I might like a few new meatadata fields to help with organising my reading - but nowhere near as many as some of the standards that have been mentioned suggest
The thing is to strike the right balance between ease of use and completeness. If there is any conflict I am inclined to lean towards the ease-of-use side.
The other main use of Calibre is its facility to convert between the different formats used by my different ebook capable reading devices (PC, iPhone, Sony Reader, WM phone) so that I can read any particular book on whatever device is currently most convenient.
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