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T'hain Esh Kelch

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By now, I have a collection of several hundreds ePub (Primarily) and PDFs which I am slowly getting more and more annoyed over. In the past I had them sorted in iBooks, but after it became Books, I want to move on. iBooks was buggy but you could get around them, but Books is borderline useless when it comes to organizing stuff - I consider it Apples worst app now due to its uselessness for anything other than buying books!

So how do people organize their eBooks? I have a kobo ereader, and iPads, and would like an easy way to read my ebooks on them. I don't mind sideloading on a regular basis for the Kobo, but I do want a central place on my Mac to keep things organized, with proper metadata, and ways to sort things (Series, worlds, authors, genres, etc.) relatively easily. Sort of like iTunes, but for books (Which iBooks was, but Books is most certainly not).

I've looked at Calibre, but I would love to hear about something that looks and works a bit more nice if possible.
 
I agree that Calibre is "on the clunky side" for an app. But it does work.

I keep all my ebooks in a folder/file hiearchy of my own making, on my media partition.

Some are arrangements by author. Others (books in a series) by title. Etc.
 

When was it last updated!?

This is sort of wild to see on the About page
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As an ex-BookReader fan, I now use Clearview X.

For organisation Clearview relies on you organising books and folders in Finder. But you can then add those folders to your Clearview library.
 
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