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nairbv · 01-07-2008, 05:33 AM

acemccloudxx:
you might want to look at kovidgoyals libprs500 software to see if it's what you need first, especially since you're using a sony (which it sounds like it caters to). It doesn't currently have a good mass-import feature, which prevented me from really trying it out much.

There's also "My ebook library", ... which seems pretty nice on first glance, but lacks what I consider to be a few critical features, and might be windows only. Mostly what kept me from continuing to use it after a few minutes of playing around, was that there was no way to select multiple books and edit the information for them all at once. I expect to be able to select a group of books and say that they are all some author, etc.

Ideally, I think the software should sort of be a cross between windows photo gallery, and itunes.

I'm also a java programmer (though I'm not opposed to programming in any language), so I might be interested in working on something. I think really good ebook cataloging software will be written eventually though, so I don't want to bother working on something that doesn't seem like it will end up being it.

There is quite a bit of ebook cataloging software out there. It's a big project that should be done well, and it seems like there's a lot of distributed effort in various less-than-ideal projects. Each piece of software I see has one or two of the features I seek implemented, but I feel like none will really be all that useful to me until all features are implemented in one piece of software.

Basically what I'm saying is, spend some time looking around first to make sure there isn't already a project out there that it would be more useful to contribute to, rather than starting another project that does one or two cool things but overall isn't all that useful.

I'm gonna go take a look at "ebook explorer 1.1" and "eKitaab" which I haven't tried yet.

looking at the ekitaab's website now, it might be good actually. it doesn't store a database at all, but just edits the filename to store the author, title, and isbn. Once that info is in the title, other software like "my ebook library" will also recognize all the files for what they are.

oh... and ekitaab is written in Java....... we'll see.

01-07-2008, 05:33 AM	#7
nairbv Connoisseur Posts: 88 Karma: 15 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: still looking for an ebook reader device	acemccloudxx: you might want to look at kovidgoyals libprs500 software to see if it's what you need first, especially since you're using a sony (which it sounds like it caters to). It doesn't currently have a good mass-import feature, which prevented me from really trying it out much. There's also "My ebook library", ... which seems pretty nice on first glance, but lacks what I consider to be a few critical features, and might be windows only. Mostly what kept me from continuing to use it after a few minutes of playing around, was that there was no way to select multiple books and edit the information for them all at once. I expect to be able to select a group of books and say that they are all some author, etc. Ideally, I think the software should sort of be a cross between windows photo gallery, and itunes. I'm also a java programmer (though I'm not opposed to programming in any language), so I might be interested in working on something. I think really good ebook cataloging software will be written eventually though, so I don't want to bother working on something that doesn't seem like it will end up being it. There is quite a bit of ebook cataloging software out there. It's a big project that should be done well, and it seems like there's a lot of distributed effort in various less-than-ideal projects. Each piece of software I see has one or two of the features I seek implemented, but I feel like none will really be all that useful to me until all features are implemented in one piece of software. Basically what I'm saying is, spend some time looking around first to make sure there isn't already a project out there that it would be more useful to contribute to, rather than starting another project that does one or two cool things but overall isn't all that useful. I'm gonna go take a look at "ebook explorer 1.1" and "eKitaab" which I haven't tried yet. looking at the ekitaab's website now, it might be good actually. it doesn't store a database at all, but just edits the filename to store the author, title, and isbn. Once that info is in the title, other software like "my ebook library" will also recognize all the files for what they are. oh... and ekitaab is written in Java....... we'll see.