> Is the standalone client decent? Is the meta-data retrieval as good as Mendeley? I think the standalone client is actually based on Gecko SDK and possibly xu

> Is the standalone client decent? Is the meta-data retrieval as good as Mendeley? I think the standalone client is actually based on Gecko SDK and possibly xulrunner, so calling it standalone might be a little unfair of me. However, it certainly doesn't require Firefox itself... Zotero retrieves metadata directly from a publisher's site with 100s of javascript plugins. Mendeley told me once that they just do OCR with some super-proprietary system they licensed. But I suspect that Mendeley now uses their servers to centralize millions of pdfs and their metadata, and probably uses that to identify and fingerprint the files in your collection... maybe. Here's to hoping that Elsevier wont revoke your pdfs!