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Checkout calibre. Its cross platform and looks interesting. I've
just tried it and it did a nice job cataloging my collection. It
even grabs amazon descriptions and book covers. I have not delved
into all its features. It has a server component but I've only tried
it as a desktop application. See <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://calibre-ebook.com/">http://calibre-ebook.com/</a>. <br>
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Quoting their about page:<br>
<blockquote>calibre is a free and open source e-book library
management application developed by users of e-books for users of
e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the
following main categories:
<ul id="feature-list">
<li> <span class="feature-title">Library Management</span> </li>
<li> <span class="feature-title"
href="http://calibre-ebook.com/about#">E-book conversion</span>
</li>
<li> <span class="feature-title"
href="http://calibre-ebook.com/about#">Syncing to e-book
reader devices</span> </li>
<li> <span class="feature-title"
href="http://calibre-ebook.com/about#">Downloading news from
the web and converting it into e-book form</span> </li>
<li> <span class="feature-title"
href="http://calibre-ebook.com/about#">Comprehensive e-book
viewer</span> </li>
<li> <span class="feature-title">Content server for online
access to your book collection</span></li>
</ul>
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Dave<br>
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On 6/24/2011 9:33 AM, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:17 AM, John-Thomas Richards <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org"><jtr@jrichards.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:50:32AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Not totally Linux related, but I thought one of you might know. Is
there a program for ebook identification? I'm thinking along the
lines of Musicbrainz PUID audio signature, but for books. I would
think it would be easier for ebooks than music since there is no
compression and a word is a word, but I am coming up with nothing on
Google. I keep coming up with e-books about fuzzy logic, isbns, tree
identification, signature analysis, and fingerprinting.
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Wait. ebooks aren't compressed? Isn't plain text about the most
compressible thing around, and lossless at that? This surprises me.
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I guess I should have not used the word "compressed". I was going for
the term lossless and had a brain bump. Sorry.
Anyway, I would have thought the application would have been out there
already .
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