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Old 12-30-2007, 05:25 AM   #108
nairbv
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Device: still looking for an ebook reader device
like, ... even just being able to select multiple books at a time in the window and hit "edit" on the whole group at once, so you could give a bunch the same author or something, like you do in itunes, .... at least then some progress could be made.

I'm not sure what it can actually do with the data once it's all loaded either though. It would be a lot more useful if it could then do things like convert the files into one format, and encode stuff like the author and title metadata into the book itself so the data is permanent independent of this particular piece of software.... and maybe once all books are taged and categorized etc, ... it could rename them all with sensible consistent names, and rebuild the organization of my directory structure for me.

I'm also not sure why it relies on amazon. If they have their own database that can look up ISBN numbers, why can't it search that database with the names in the files, and use the info directly to get an ISBN number? why make me click around on some web page looking for it? If it used it's own ISBN database to look up titles and such, it could probably really quickly categorize all my books with good data. I'd probably even pay them for that kind of functionality.
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