ebook catalogue
June 10, 2007
So I was looking for a way to catalogue/catagorize my ebooks and apparently, there are no real open source software out there that allows you to do that. I needed something to auto catalogue my ebooks based on the filename or perhaps some content-based heuristics to find out whether an ebook belonged to a certain category.
Ideally, my choice of ’shelving’ ebooks would be by category as seen in bookstores like borders and not by the dewy decimal system utilized by libraries. Libraries commonly use dewey decimal but some are (or at least one) phasing them out. There are some thoughts here. Quite a few. There will always be some fans but I’m not one of them. In fact, for ebooks, i’m more in favour of some form of tagging.
A few months ago, i was googling and found nothing. zilch. Today while trying my luck in getting a hit before i start to really get down to coding my own, i ran across eKitaa (link) which was started as recent as April 2007. It retrieves ebook information using a basic amazon search and lightweight xml parsing code.
OpenBerg also interests with a significant list of items in its roadmap.
