From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: [IDEA] An eBook manager for Emacs Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:42:25 +0100 Organization: Linux Private Site Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151415874 15935 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2006 13:44:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 27 15:44:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvDrQ-0000Pp-Bd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:44:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvDrP-0002lH-RE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:44:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvDqo-0002WE-Nx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:43:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvDqm-0002VI-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:43:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvDqm-0002Uu-7Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:43:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FvE2s-0005N6-Sn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 09:56:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FvDqK-00009V-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:43:04 +0200 Original-Received: from soup.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk ([193.60.95.74]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:43:04 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by soup.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:43:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 37 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: soup.linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAJFBMVEXABzq8QGJycpzPbInN hZrfobTEwM/iusf01d/o4Of87/X8/vxhiMb8AAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAAAB3RJTUUH 1QwIBwwBUJ6LzQAAAe9JREFUOMu9lMFrE0EUxieEHHqzaKzm2IMXL4F0kdWLxZQ26aUlgti9iRRi L4YklO5elPQg7sUSm3Z2Li6xJNl3Ksmmnfn+OWdTotlsgid9sLC83+z35n3vsQxLgv1XoJaBW7EA kH5uHAUl5r/QJHwO6iXABw1yCi2aB6eCwhXIbKJ4O4dRhoYrCXC76g7T9DEHBBQvvvdomOrfK5Pq xAH8VHO1xVyqmzNSUgQI2QHJzcF+WswA1Si8CQytJzdZmf4ABZ1Iu9GJlxmK30rmUxPg26BZKaC3 QZEvMuku15gfTqLqzfbROVzX8USnOe94UzC4yx7Nz2McpdeP4kOMwLso/zQ588EEVJXCUinQ3HXH d8U5JZZBgvOqboFz9feFU0s3kabKRDEwKJbUgg0Fa4ktKKLoOKnp9ukXVkRHHr92vr/Vpls4396h xslF4/IL23fQdmS2uwtc5WhUrgnf3r65aDI/QxVQrWsp/FzT4IfrfzUiqUHeNAjfTg+A41cYmXVc uzUTxNDLZBGc1bVUMe+FDx7Dd/r3BTEnKBSAT10LsuRbV+YGXbvizAEzlfHZVlvd3d65HebCFzV7 eGKNNCi8L42NptXOVip2uNZ61ntY2zEaBNbnIG2qklyS8nSrgUdcRMVpgYP023b1L38ZvwDngd2h /heI3AAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SoSIGm8U017eilulBTunw5TIO6k= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35692 Archived-At: 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. 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. Function one: Retrieve book information from website such as amazon using ISBN. Function two: TAG. For example a book: "Lie group actions in complex analysis" Can be tagged "Lie groups::Complex manifolds" 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. Thank you for your time. Footnotes: [1] http://ibookshelf.sourceforge.net/ -- Leon