[IAEP] Library Activity

[James Simmons]

Carol,

I would not use sqllite 3.  The metadata for several hundred books could 
easily fit in memory.  It would basically be a good sized spreadsheet.  
Python has a "pickling" feature which can save a bunch of objects in 
memory in a single file that can be easily reloaded into memory.  I 
could store the pickle file as a Journal entry.  I would not try to 
recreate ALL of Calibre, just the parts I would find the most useful.  
That way the Activity could be entirely self contained.

James Simmons

Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
> Calibre makes a sqlite3 database which is the basis for its display.  
> It seems to have a reasonable schema.  (An easy way to examine it is 
> with the Sqlite Manger, an excellent Firefox add-on if you haven't 
> already discovered it).
>