[Kythe42]

I'll start off by saying that I love Calibre for organizing my books and tracking my reading, and I have no intention of switching to another program for that. I even love the program so much that I installed a 2nd copy of portable to make an inventory of my craft tools.

Now I come to the point where I'd like to use Calibre for other things, but I feel a bit silly installing more portable copies just so it automatically loads the library I want when opening the program.

Every time I try to set something up with Access, I end up giving up because it seems to take so much more effort to set things up how I like them than it does with Calibre. So does anyone know any programs that are pretty close to Calibre's design but aren't set up for specific types of items. I'd definitely want the ability to customize my fields and a free open source program is preferable.

Thanks in advance for any information you can give me.