Thread: Looking for an E-book Indexing / Inventory / Cataloging Program
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Old 03-13-2010, 01:32 PM   #142
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Originally Posted by catpower73 View Post
A while ago, I was looking for e-book catalog software too. I found and tried "Collectorz.com Book Collector Pro" but it did not meet my expectations. It focuses more on cataloging books in general, and adds some support for e-books too, but it certainly is not the iTunes for e-books I was looking for.

Now, since I have a large collection of "technical" e-books (several 100) basically in two formats (PDF and CHM), I found another solution.

I created an XML-file with all the e-book's metadata (title, author, publisher, release date, version, ISBN-code etc.). It is simple and straight forward. I feed this catalog with metadata using a Perl script talking to the Amazon webservice. All it requires is the book's ISBN-number. The XML-file itself is turned into a human readable HTML-page using an XSLT stylesheet. That's it. If someone is interested, I'd be glad to post the solution.

I do hope that Apple will enter the world of e-book software with the release of their new iPad. I believe many people are longing for something like "an iTunes for e-books".
Certainly the Perl script and data format would be useful to post. I am sure it would be helpful. It could also be placed in the wiki.

There is an eBook reader for the iPad and it does use iTunes and there will be an eBook store by Apple. Unfortunately the whole system will be incompatible with other devices even the DRM scheme. For more info read our wiki.

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