[IAEP] Library Activity

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

You would need to reinvent ACID updates if you shared the catalog.

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com>wrote:

> 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).
>>
>>
>
>
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