Hi All,
I thought some of you might find
Catalog - which can be considered as an alternative to the Calibre - worth a try, in particular as it is currently "native" to the iLiad and therefore I post it here on this forum.
- UI-wise Catalog's approach is different from the Calibre (and to my taste) more handy, but on the other hand it's not as rich in features, as e.g. there's no conversion of files into any other formats.
The idea of the user-interface is to show a list of all authors, and for a selected author the list of titles and if one title's been selected the respective details (see shot_1.tiff).
- The lists are sorted alphabetically - not a great deal but worth mentioning is that for the titles the sorting takes the 'Series' into account (by internally prepending the series to the actual 'Title'. This will guarantee that the books of a particlar series are shown together.
- If you hit 'eBook' you are prompted for the path to where the selected book is to be copied. Having entered a path the book's file and the image will be copied to that location and a corresponding manifest.xml will be created.
- Catalog is multi-lingual (though currently multi is actually bi), where the default language is English and German is the alternative. This can be changed in two ways, either by passing -lang <lang> on the command line, or by adding line "lang: <lang>" to .Catatlogrc which is created in your home-directory.
- If you have a Mac in front of you, you can see the 'Open' button which will open the current document - at least most often -
I wrote Catalog in java and bundled it into a jar-file (that should be executable on any OS) but the upload tool doesn't accept jars
and therefore I had to zip it. I also attached the sources as 'Catalog.tar.gz'.
And of course,
Catalog is free software. And of course, there's no warrenty whatsoever.
If you find a bug or want a feature be added, please let me know (I'll be also pleased, if you just want to tell me you like it
)
Best regards,
Tommy