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catpower73 · 03-14-2010, 11:36 AM

I had a quick look at Calibre. I remember I did it before, and I was not too impressed by its capabilities. Seeing the newest version, I admit it has improved a lot, but still, it does not meet my expectations of what an e-book catalog application should do. For instance, I tried to add 100 randomly chosen e-books of mine: it found metadata for merely 5% of them. And these are all recent, well-known technical e-books (with the ISBN number in the filename). So no, I'll stick with my Perl-script and Amazon webservice solution for a while. It works for me.

For me, an e-book catalog application should be all about managing metadata, and using (free) on-line services to do this in the fastest possible way. The look and feel of the application presenting the data is of less importance to me (hence, my HTML-approach).

(I'll post my Perl/Amazon solution here or on the wiki in the coming days.)

03-14-2010, 11:36 AM	#143
catpower73 Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: none	Calibre2 I had a quick look at Calibre. I remember I did it before, and I was not too impressed by its capabilities. Seeing the newest version, I admit it has improved a lot, but still, it does not meet my expectations of what an e-book catalog application should do. For instance, I tried to add 100 randomly chosen e-books of mine: it found metadata for merely 5% of them. And these are all recent, well-known technical e-books (with the ISBN number in the filename). So no, I'll stick with my Perl-script and Amazon webservice solution for a while. It works for me. For me, an e-book catalog application should be all about managing metadata, and using (free) on-line services to do this in the fastest possible way. The look and feel of the application presenting the data is of less importance to me (hence, my HTML-approach). (I'll post my Perl/Amazon solution here or on the wiki in the coming days.)