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Yes. I recommend Zotero as an alternative to Calibre frequently, and while reading your comment I was going to make a comparison before I even got to the part that mentions Calibre by name. I started out using using Zotero during lockdowns after having known about it for years. The landing page and Wikipedia article never really sold me on it before—"A reference manager? Why do I want that?" Now I use it for collecting everything that isn't a good fit for the native bookmarks manager in Firefox (which is a lot more than what Chrome's bookmarks manager is good for, but still). Having started using it, it's great for other stuff like archiving Web pages and good enough to create/manage lists of books. You might also be interested in a recent Show HN: Citadel – a Calibre-compatible eBook management app <https://github.com/every-day-thin

Thanks for the offer! If you'd like to, I've written up a quick issue outlining what I think we need for a build: https://github.com/every-day-things/citadel/issues/3 It sounds like some folks have issues building on Linux, but FWIW I had no problems building in a Codespace.

Hey folks! This winter I've been building Citadel to scratch my itch of managing ebooks without using Calibre. Calibre is incredibly powerful, but it's slow and awkward to use. I dreamed of writing a native app (and originally tried this in Swift), but ran into issues building the UI. Plus, whatever I built would only work on macOS. I started writing Citadel using Tauri (Svelte on the frontend + Rust on the backend) to have a cross-platform desktop app. Plus, Citadel supports running in a headless / webbrowser mode. You can self-host a Citadel server that manages your library, and connect to it from anywhere with the web. This is SUPER early software. Honestly, I'm a bit embarrassed to post it here — but I wanted folks to know that I'm building a tool to replace Calibre. If you'd like to help build it, I'd love the help! If you just want