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Add to SafariWhen comparing Calibre vs FreshRSS, the Slant community recommends Calibre for most people. In the question“What are the best RSS readers for UNIX-like systems?” Calibre is ranked 4th while FreshRSS is ranked 7th. 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 Full control
Licensed under AGPL 3 and self-hosted.
Pro Polite and respectful community
You can ask questions and receive answers. It seems normal on the surface, but that's currently almost an unique feature for an OSS.
Pro Fast
As someone who used Tiny Tiny RSS for many, many years (and sill likes it) I will say that FreshRSS is noticeably faster. Feed checks are quick and jumping into the menus to configure it is effortless.
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
