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I'm a bit divided on Calibre. On one side it's very versatile and useful. On the other side had it so many data loses over the years for me, that it's disturbing, and I stopped using it regularly. I wish there would be a good robust alternative. But at this point Calibre is such a Moloch..

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As a counterpoint, I've been using Calibre for 10+ years with hundreds of books and multiple libraries, syncing them across Windows and Linux machines (using Nextcloud), and I've never even once seen any data losses.

Of course is it not a common problem. Calibre wouldn't be so popular otherwise.

And some hundreds book's is not much, unless you change all of them at once. The probability of loses depends on the number of changes. One reason seems poorly implemented writing of data, and lousy communication of pending changes. At least it was the case 2-3 years ago when I last looked at this. But I guess, this is part of the questionable UI..

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