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Add to SafariWhen comparing Calibre vs Mendeley, the Slant community recommends Calibre for most people. In the question“What are the best programs for organizing PDF? ” Calibre is ranked 1st while Mendeley is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Calibre is:
Features include metadata editing and downloading, coverpage downloading., book tagging and categorization, webpage-to-ebook converter for popular websites, etc. Lots of plugins available to extend functionality.
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Pros
Pro Powerful book management software, very customizable and scriptable
Features include metadata editing and downloading, coverpage downloading., book tagging and categorization, webpage-to-ebook converter for popular websites, etc. Lots of plugins available to extend functionality.
Pro Cross-platform
Calibre is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows, 32-bit or 64-bit.
Pro Open Source
Pro Portable
Calibre has an optional portable build that can be stored on external media along with the users library. It can then be opened from the external media on any windows device.
Pro Good sharing and community support
Pro Moderately high cloud space
Pro Very good PDF management capability
Pro Great web interface
Pro Good video tutorials
Official video tutorials can be found here that take you through what the software is capable and how to go about using it.
Cons
Con Average, non-power users might find the interface somewhat daunting
The interface, while functional is not the most attractive or intuitive which may put some people off and discourage their use.
Con Can't save text highlights or annotate
Con Closed Source (Proprietary)
Own by Elsevier
Con Not very good web import capability
To support importing citation from your browser
Con Proprietary and not-standard PDF annotation
If you annotate the PDFs you have to open it with Mendeley since it uses non-standard formats to annotate PDFs.
