Additionally, time I spent updating metadata in calibre had limited payoff because I couldn’t use calibre for citation. In practice this usually meant that I had the article to read on my Kindle, but not in Zotero. While no single step is difficult in and of itself, doing three things instead of one always inspires a certain amount of laziness, so it meant that my libraries often got out of sync.
#UPDATE CALIBRE LIBRARY AFTER CHANGING FILES PDF#
(Article name is duplicated in the folder hierarchy and the file name because multiple formats of the article, such as PDF and EPUB, may coexist in the folder.) This meant that when I found a journal article I wanted to read, I had to import it to calibre, import the bibliographic data to Zotero, and link from the Zotero database to the file in the calibre storage hierachy. (It does offer PDF conversion as well, but I found the results to be not very good, so I read native PDFs on the Kindle.) Additionally, while calibre also does not give you control over the library folder hierarchy and file naming, it at least uses a human-readable hierarchy based on //. I started using calibre, which is primarily intended as an e-reader manager, for that reason, and also for the fact that it allows easy conversion to e-reader file formats from HTML, DOC(X), and also from EPUB (which the Kindle can’t read) to MOBI (which it can). But I don’t like its obtuse, iTunes-like management of your library in a hierarchy of meaninglessly named subfolders, and I also wanted something that could sync my library to my Kindle DX. Enough people love Zotero that I hardly need to sing its praises. I force my first-year seminar students to use it for their research papers, and even upper division students who have not used a reference manager before have their minds blown when they realize they no longer need to keep track of where the commas go in a citation.
Zotero is great for reference management and automatic citation. For the last two years, I have used a combination of calibre and Zotero to manage my research sources, mostly PDFs of journal articles.
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