Metadata is what makes an e-book findable on a device, sortable in a store, and identifiable in the book trade — here's how to get covers, series naming, and ISBNs right in the tools you already use.
Both edit the inside of an EPUB, but they earn their keep on different jobs — one comparison table and four honest scenarios settle which tool to open.
Amazon Household, Kobo's shared-device reality, PocketBook family accounts, and the DRM-free home server route — four ways families read from one shelf, each with real limits worth knowing before you commit.
DRM-free files, store licenses, format-shifting, and backups each sit in different legal territory — a plain-language map of the lawful boundaries around your own digital library, without any shortcuts around the locks.
Built-in dictionary lookups, translation taps, and spaced-repetition vocab builders each solve a different layer of the same problem — here's how to combine them without stopping to look up every third word.
Sigil opens the EPUB itself — XHTML, CSS, spine, and all — which makes it the tool for surgical fixes that no library manager or converter dialog will ever reach.