Anyone wants to join our beta testing at catalog.im? A new cloud ebooks library!

[Felix Ding]

We are working on this "catalog.im" project, that aims to help book lovers to have a central place to store the whole ebooks library, and access the library on almost any device.

Very easy to use:

1. Upload your ebooks and your personal library is all set (we identify the ebooks, fill in title, author and cover etc)
2. Get your ebooks by downloading, OPDS, or "Send to Kindle" (my favorite feature)

Rich features:

1. Upload & Done
2. Full text search, even for book content (under working)
3. PDF · EPUB · MOBI formats
4. OPDS feed, Send to Kindle, and direct download ebooks
5. Note & Rating
6. Tags
7. Reading Progress
8. Public, theme-able library page

The service is under development at the moment, and we would love to have some people to try it out and give us feedbacks

Please leave your email address (or send it to me as a private message) so that I can invite you.

Some screenshots (click to enlarge):

"Timeline theme" for Library:


"Bookshelf theme" for Library:


View a book:


OPDS support (Stanza and others):


Personal settings:


About us:

[Duprasi]

Will it be a free or a payed service? The screenshots look very inviting!

[Felix Ding]

Thanks!
You can use it for free, until the number of your ebooks reaches the limit. And we are going to make the premium service very affordable.

Stay tuned!

[taliwalt]

how do I get an invite! I'd love to test it out!

[brainvision]

Hi everybody!

I will be glad to be one of the testers, so please count me in and let me know what to do!

Thanks,
see you soon!

[ojoavizor]

I will be very glad to joing your community. I have been searching for a service like yours for a long time. How can I get a invitation?

Thanks

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ojoavizor

I will be very glad to joing your community. I have been searching for a service like yours for a long time. How can I get a invitation?

Thanks

Felix has not been on MR since sometime in July. Send a PM instead of waiting for a reply in this thread.

[ojoavizor]

Thank you. I will try that way

[Felix Ding]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Felix has not been on MR since sometime in July. Send a PM instead of waiting for a reply in this thread.

We had experienced some engineering issues but now we have fixed them. So, catalog.im has entered its public beta today!

http://www.catalog.im

[flips01]

It says free trial ... what's the pricing? "The first two weeks are free" is too similar to how they push drugs ...

[Felix Ding]

The pricing is here: http://www.catalog.im/pricing

:-)

[X-static]

Hi. I registered and uploaded an epub but now can't see the option to download it. The only options I have are Rematch, Edit and Delete.

[Elfwreck]

What happens when someone with an active account stops paying? I assume they're locked out; how long is their content kept around--how long do they have to reactivate before their content is deleted?

Filetypes: Do you expect to support .cbr/.cbz files?

The "unlimited books" books option... how unlimited is that? The company I work for regularly processes a few hundred mb of PDFs at a time. While those were never intended as ebooks (scanned legal documents, mostly), there are plenty of large PDFs that are ebooks--archive.org and googlebooks both have scanned PDFs. Between those and the ability to convert .cbz to .pdf, you could find yourselves storing dozens to hundreds of gb of scans for high-capacity users.

Or is there a cap on individual book size? (You could still find yourself flooded with large sets of 5mb PDFs, but that's less likely. However, if you don't accept scanned-image PDFs, which regularly run 12-40mb, that should be stated somewhere that people can see it before they sign up. Some epubs are 12mb, if they're heavy with pictures or code.)

Where's your TOS? Under what conditions can someone's account be cancelled, and what happens to their content & their pre-payments in that case?

[Felix Ding]

Originally Posted by X-static

Hi. I registered and uploaded an epub but now can't see the option to download it. The only options I have are Rematch, Edit and Delete.

It was a bug, but now it's fixed.

[Felix Ding]

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

What happens when someone with an active account stops paying? I assume they're locked out; how long is their content kept around--how long do they have to reactivate before their content is deleted?

Their content will be kept. People who stop paying can still log in the site, browse the library, but can't upload or download anything.

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

Filetypes: Do you expect to support .cbr/.cbz files?

Maybe. It all depends on who many people need this. If a lot of people who would like to pay for this, then yes!

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

The "unlimited books" books option... how unlimited is that? The company I work for regularly processes a few hundred mb of PDFs at a time. While those were never intended as ebooks (scanned legal documents, mostly), there are plenty of large PDFs that are ebooks--archive.org and googlebooks both have scanned PDFs. Between those and the ability to convert .cbz to .pdf, you could find yourselves storing dozens to hundreds of gb of scans for high-capacity users.

Or is there a cap on individual book size? (You could still find yourself flooded with large sets of 5mb PDFs, but that's less likely. However, if you don't accept scanned-image PDFs, which regularly run 12-40mb, that should be stated somewhere that people can see it before they sign up. Some epubs are 12mb, if they're heavy with pictures or code.)

We do have a limit on file size: 50 MB. We accept scanned-image PDFs.

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

Where's your TOS? Under what conditions can someone's account be cancelled, and what happens to their content & their pre-payments in that case?

No pre-payments required to have a 14-day trial. If the user decides not to pay, all his or her content will be kept. But you are right, we need a TOS. We will make one.

Thank you, I really like your questions