BookGlutton becomes “Originality Glutton”: adds new service - epubcatalog
By Paul Biba
The BookGlutton people are really on a roll. As Roger Spergerg said in an email to me: The BookGlutton folks are just charging ahead madly! Wonderful!
They have started a new service, currently Twitter based, which will build a catalog of ebooks. Check out their epubcatalog info and here’s an excerpt from their write up:
How do I get started?
It’s very easy if you’re a member of Twitter. We plan to support many services in the long run, but for now, you’ll need a Twitter account. With your Twitter account, follow @epubcatalog. Once you’re a follower, you can tell epubcatalog about books you find on the Web. The only format supported for books is EPUB. Support for catalogs is planned through the OPDS recommendation.
How do I add books?
To let epubcatalog know about links to books, the books must be on the Web and publicly accessible. To get links, often you can right click on them in a Web page and select “Copy link” or “Copy URL.” Then simply Direct Message (DM) the URL, prefixed by a plus sign (+). It will be added to the epubcatalog.org catalog as soon as your message is processed. Normally, it happens in a matter of seconds, but it can take several minutes to an hour depending on Twitter network congestion.
A command to add a book looks like this:
+ http://catalog.feedbooks.com/books/1001.epub
The space between the plus and the URL is required. You don’t need to type in the title or author, these will be pulled from the EPUB file.
How can I see books I’ve added or books other people added?
The epubcatalog Twitter stream will announce new additions as they’re processed. Since you’ve followed epubcatalog at this point, you’ll see everything new as it comes in, including your own adds (although to protect privacy, epubcatalog won’t tell anyone who posted the items). It may take a few minutes for your additions to appear. Another way to see new additions is to simply subscribe to the epubcatalog.org Atom feed. This is a catalog feed that you can subscribe to with Google Reader, most Web browsers, and a lot of other tools out there.
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