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Re: [IDEA] An eBook manager for Emacs
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Xiao-Yong Jin |
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Re: [IDEA] An eBook manager for Emacs |
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Sun, 02 Jul 2006 23:57:55 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear all,
>
> In the digital age, eBooks are becoming more and more popular. Some of
> us may have a few hundreds of ebooks stored in the computer but yet an
> efficient method of using them.
>
Please allow me to make it further.
The idea is, not only ebooks, but also musics, movies, source codes
and anything else. (It could be a very large project)
> A google search shows there is no ready to use ebook catalog package
> for emacs. However it is a nice one to have and it seems not very hard
> to implement. Therefore, I put the idea here to attract contribution
> from elisp gurus.
>
> I imagine the interface will be quite similar to bbdb but instead of
> contacts it's books.
>
With integrated support of dired.
> Function one:
> Retrieve book information from website such as amazon using ISBN.
>
It could be generalized to be any kind of meta-data retrieving.
> Function two:
> TAG.
> For example a book: "Lie group actions in complex analysis"
> Can be tagged "Lie groups::Complex manifolds"
>
Mathias' file-props.el is really a good start.
> Function three:
> Local copy info.
> Store a link to a copy in local machine which will be used to open
> the ebooks.
> ...
>
> BTW, some applications[1] are using xml to store the book data.
>
Ideally, the meta-data could be stored in file system's meta data.
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] http://ibookshelf.sourceforge.net/
>
> --
> Leon
>
>
>
Anyway, it could be a very good feature to implement for dired. And
for other project management packages? Org mode? Planner mode?
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Xiao-Yong
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