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Originally Posted by dunhill
How would you manage a loan history in Calibre?
I have these columns: title, author, series, tags, loan date, due date, return date, user, and a column for the difference in days that alerts me if the return date is exceeded.
For the history, I thought I'd add a note for the user.
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As others have written, Calibre is really a repository of ebooks, not a library system in the sense that the software public libraries, video rental, Kindle Unlimited, or Kobo Plus etc use to manage subscribers/borrowers.
I've written that kind of software, which has a subscriber database as well as the book/magazine/video/LP/CD catalogues. You can of course kludge it in Calibre using extra custom columns, but it doesn't make sense. For physical loans you also want to integrate barcodes or RF-ID tags.
I'd not use anything other than Calibre to manage my ebooks, but I'd use a real lending-library system for loans/borrows & subscribers, not Calibre.