Comments on: ‘Books for MacOS X: An open-source book cataloguing application for MacOS X’—plus a Calibre 0.5.6 update reminder http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/13/books-for-macos-x-an-open-source-book-cataloguing-application-for-macos-x-plus-a-calibre-056-update-reminder/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/13/books-for-macos-x-an-open-source-book-cataloguing-application-for-macos-x-plus-a-calibre-056-update-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1037428 David Rothman Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:49:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/13/books-for-macos-x-an-open-source-book-cataloguing-application-for-macos-x-plus-a-calibre-056-update-reminder/#comment-1037428 Chris, keep us posted about Books! Michael, I'm glad you were able to follow up. Thanks, both of you. David Chris, keep us posted about Books! Michael, I’m glad you were able to follow up. Thanks, both of you. David

]]> By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/13/books-for-macos-x-an-open-source-book-cataloguing-application-for-macos-x-plus-a-calibre-056-update-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1037105 Michael Pastore Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:04:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/13/books-for-macos-x-an-open-source-book-cataloguing-application-for-macos-x-plus-a-calibre-056-update-reminder/#comment-1037105 Thanks, David: Books is a superb find. Here's my first-look review: http://tinyurl.com/cpq24w And an excerpt: Now that ebooks are getting more and more popular, you'll need a way to catalog your ebooks. Books can do it admirably. From the Books main screen, I made a separate list for my ebooks. Then I tagged each ebook with useful tags of my choice, for example: ebook file format, genre, source (where I acquired the ebook) and location. For the ePub ebooks that I keep on Bookworm, I make a note in Books to help me to remember that fact. My PDFs are stored in a file called "My Ebooks 2009". Books lets you add a file link to every listing: so my PDF ebooks (and text and HTML ebooks) can be opened and viewed in two easy clicks. Books uses Apple's default PDF viewer, Preview, which is my favorite way to read PDFs on the Mac. Michael Pastore 50 Benefits of Ebooks Thanks, David: Books is a superb find.

Here’s my first-look review:
http://tinyurl.com/cpq24w

And an excerpt:

Now that ebooks are getting more and more popular, you’ll need a way to catalog your ebooks. Books can do it admirably. From the Books main screen, I made a separate list for my ebooks. Then I tagged each ebook with useful tags of my choice, for example: ebook file format, genre, source (where I acquired the ebook) and location.

For the ePub ebooks that I keep on Bookworm, I make a note in Books to help me to remember that fact. My PDFs are stored in a file called “My Ebooks 2009″. Books lets you add a file link to every listing: so my PDF ebooks (and text and HTML ebooks) can be opened and viewed in two easy clicks. Books uses Apple’s default PDF viewer, Preview, which is my favorite way to read PDFs on the Mac.

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

]]> By: Chris Karr http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/13/books-for-macos-x-an-open-source-book-cataloguing-application-for-macos-x-plus-a-calibre-056-update-reminder/comment-page-1/#comment-1037054 Chris Karr Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:55:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/13/books-for-macos-x-an-open-source-book-cataloguing-application-for-macos-x-plus-a-calibre-056-update-reminder/#comment-1037054 (A note from the Books developer here...) In its current incarnation, Books 3 is not really designed for serious e-book management. I just wanted to get that out of the way. I'm currently working on a major overhaul of the platform to make it much more friendly for electronic books, but this work is in its early stages. However, I do have some code that I'm ready to share. Last week, I put the finishing touches on Spotlight and Quickfill plugins for ePub files. If any TeleRead readers would like to beta test them before I do the public release later this week, please send a note to books@aetherial.net and I'll send out the instructions and plugins. After I get some feedback from actual users, I'll proceed with a more public release. (A note from the Books developer here…)

In its current incarnation, Books 3 is not really designed for serious e-book management. I just wanted to get that out of the way. I’m currently working on a major overhaul of the platform to make it much more friendly for electronic books, but this work is in its early stages.

However, I do have some code that I’m ready to share. Last week, I put the finishing touches on Spotlight and Quickfill plugins for ePub files. If any TeleRead readers would like to beta test them before I do the public release later this week, please send a note to books@aetherial.net and I’ll send out the instructions and plugins. After I get some feedback from actual users, I’ll proceed with a more public release.

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