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Originally Posted by quazardous
well it can be user error but I was paying attention to eject and stuff.
The fact is that I've end up with an import loop : so it is not safe by definition. I'm not complaining here I did mess up my kobo ;p
I think some of you are over protective with calibre lol I do love open source. I m managing web servers. but I also admit that some times things can be messy. And kobo + calibre is messy : lots of wikis are outdated, some options are redundant (metadata plugboard vs driver options). I m sure it will do well at some point but with some efforts and some factory reset.
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I agree about calibre. It is kind of messy. I usually just read the source code, and find out what is done well, what could be done better, and what isn't done at all, then make some standalone tools to do what I want.
My biggest dislikes about calibre is: it's folder structure, how it is hard to version with git, it's meta tags (except for series, and I'm a purist), it's calibre# classes (again, I'm a purist), it's black boxness (I don't know exactly what goes in and out of the db), and it's too many features.
I still use calibre for certain tasks, but then I clean the ebook up afterwards.
For the calibre developers: don't feel bad, I am like this about quite a few other tools. I'm the kind of person who like manually editing ebooks with bash, grep, sed, vim, and vscode. I also still use calibre, a bit in an indirect way.