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How to counter vCard address book "bit rot"

After a few years and mobile device generations the state of my address book was rather frustrating: Starting with Nokia Symbian S60 (SyncML) over to early Android (using Backups), on to BlackBerry 10 (Card/CalDAV backend) and ultimately back to Android (using a sync app) has introduced numerous duplications and invisible character additions by the respective address book apps (the Samsung Contacts app being the worst).