What do you want

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by StudentTuWien

Thank you for all your input!

I don't know what you mean by Homework project, but yes it is for a course we take this term.

I would love to make an Android App, but the course administration said no, because we have a fixed set of technologies we have to use.

And regarding the legal stuff, our application will only allow to search for books in the public domain.

The project got already accepted, but thanks you for your suggestions Froide.

This is the first you have said of searching.

Might I add that calibre searches many sources and nobody has suggested it is illegal. In fact, some small bookstores (outside the US, where non-DRMed books are more popuar and this has relevance) link to calibre as a way to "read your purchase on a kindle".

There is no legal issue with searching Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google Books, Goodreads, etc. -- so long as your app doesn't hack their servers to download the books themselves.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by StudentTuWien

Thank you for all your input!

I don't know what you mean by Homework project, but yes it is for a course we take this term.

I would love to make an Android App, but the course administration said no, because we have a fixed set of technologies we have to use.

And regarding the legal stuff, our application will only allow to search for books in the public domain.

The project got already accepted, but thanks you for your suggestions Froide.

For Public Domain books one of the best sources is Gutenberg.
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[murg]

Originally Posted by StudentTuWien

I don't know what you mean by Homework project, but yes it is for a course we take this term.

That's pretty much the definition of a homework project.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by Purple Lady

I keep meaning to do this. I have a lot of paper books I want to get rid if and I'd like to have a record of what I had.

This process is sooo much more efficient than cataloging books by hand.

Additionally, this is a quick and easy way to check the status of interesting books encountered in a bookstore. In seconds, one can determine whether or not one already owns them and their status (TBR, completed, etc.).

[hildea]

Originally Posted by murg

That's pretty much the definition of a homework project.

Well, the scool project is to develop the application. Asking for comments on features from potential users doesn't seem problematic to me. (It could even be a required part of the project.)

For me, these features are important:
Author Based Automatic Book Organisation
Tagging System
A simple epub editor

These are nice to have:
Organisation of ebooks in "Libraries"
Rating of Books
Barcode-Scanner for the ISBN

Not interested in:
Child Protection Password
Printing

And a comment about "Author Based Automatic Book Organisation": What I really want is to be able to choose different kinds of organization, or at least different kinds of viewing the books on my screen. Sort by author, or title, or language, or tags, or when the book was added to the library.

Good luck with your project!

[rollei]

Originally Posted by StudentTuWien

Hi,
Me and a group of 5 other students are going to develop this term an
eBook management application.

Right now, we have:
Organisation of ebooks in "Libraries".
Rating of Books
Barcode-Scanner for the ISBN
Child Protection Password
Author Based Automatic Book Organisation
Tagging System
A simple epub editor
Printing


What of those features is the most/least important to you?

Is there any feature you want to see in an ebook management system?


Thank you for helping out!

Like Calibre, needs to be able to convert between various file formats.