I agree that calibre is not designed for a lending library but I found that it works well enough for keeping track of both my ebooks and pbooks.
I really want all my books in one database so that I'm not checking two databases to see if I have one particular book so my paper books are added to my Calibre library and tagged as pbook. (and when I'm checking if any of my pbooks are missing, I pull up my pbooks from the calibre server onto my tablet to create my checklist)
Before calibre I had entered most of them into a bar code scanning app that allowed export as CSV so when I switched to calibre I just had to master the Import List plugin.
Nowadays I just add them as I buy them.
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