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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
I ended up adding around 25 columns, of which most were PCIP related. I've been tempted to add columns for DCIM, but I'm not entranced with the amount of manual entry doing so would entail.
I'm not entranced with entering data once in Calibre, and then again in a Bibliography Reference Manager.
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Me either, and I wasn't suggesting you should. That is why I keep documents for citation elsewhere, and books in Calibre. Actual book metadata is easily automated in either so all I actually enter is an ISBN, and I rarely reference actual books - perhaps a discipline difference - so that tiny amount of duplication doesn't bother me. And the problem isn't just getting the data in, it's getting it back out in a useful format - keeping citations in Calibre would mean yet more manual entry formatting the ref's in whatever document I'm writing.
Calibre is very good at what it does and it does a great many things, but I'm not sure it should be bent to doing everything. Sometimes the answer to "Calibre can't do what I want" really is "Then use something that already does".