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I tag my files on macOS since the OpenMeta days. But I refuse to access any library with an application frontend, it's the file system or nothing. These Librarian apps are good for metadata management. That's what I use them for.

However, I am mostly on Windows, these days, so no chance for filesystem tags, even worse now, that I have all my eBooks on a home server.



The DB frontend is very useful for metadata, short descriptions, and finding duplicates.

I run a headless version of Calibre in the cloud, so I can read in the browser and do other stuff.


Afaik there are tools that use Alternate Data Streams (ADS) to store metadata for files (on NTFS drives).




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