[GRLUG] ebook identification

[David Pembrook]

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 http://calibre-ebook.com/.

Quoting their about page:

    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:

        * Library Management
        * E-book conversion
        * Syncing to e-book reader devices
        * Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form
        * Comprehensive e-book viewer
        * Content server for online access to your book collection

Dave

On 6/24/2011 9:33 AM, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 9:17 AM, John-Thomas Richards<jtr at jrichards.org>  wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 06:50:32AM -0400, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Wait.  ebooks aren't compressed?  Isn't plain text about the most
>> compressible thing around, and lossless at that?  This surprises me.
> 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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