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Of course, now you’ve piqued my interest - what is it that you want from your library management tool?

FWIW the tool I’ve built has no built-in ereader because I use apps like Apple Books or my kobo to read. i don’t need another half-built ereader

what is it that you want from your library management tool?

Custom fields for metadata and accessibility from different devices. Usually there is only hardcoded metadata, tags or categories and one or more systems for collections. And moving data between different software is also quite limited of course.

At the moment I manage everything with calibre on desktop, and use calibre-sync(?) on mobile which has full support for calibres metadata, including the custom fields. But it has no builtin reader and a very unoptimized interface. So the whole handling is very cumbersome, I have to first filter for what I seek, then download it, then change to the reader-app, and maybe organize the file there too, and afterwards I have to delete the local file and manage stuff on desktop like read-state, rating, etc.

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