Calibre allows you to edit metadata of your books like e.g. Tags, I call that categories. And I love using categories (from DMOZ.org). But if I change book metadata in calibre, they stay in calibre’s database – until I do “Save to disk” – but then the updated books still go to a separate directory tree – this may be on purpose – but I would rather like to get the books updated “in place”, i.e. the books themselves that I included myself.
Likewise with bookmarks, and “selections”, i.e. “marked areas” – the Mac’s “iBooks” has that feature, calibre not yet, but I wished it had them, because that’s a rather nice feature.
The books will hopefully survive for a while, calibre’s database is rather “transient”, just as iBooks’ database is. That’s the idea.
I quite like iBooks’ nice extra features, like commenting – they drive innovation. But I don’t like the mysterious store, where its memory is kept, i.e. the proprietary database.
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