[IAEP] Library Activity

[James Simmons]

All,

The last few emails on the Library Activity suggest that people are 
looking at Library as a way of organizing their various Journal content 
just as much if not more than as a way to share said content.

As far as organizing content goes, I like what Calibre does better than 
the tree view you seem to be proposing.  What I would like is a tabular 
format where you can sort ascending or descending on any column, and 
filter on any column.  Both Calibre and iTunes have a view like this and 
for me it works.  I would have columns for Title, Author, Subject, and 
Type, where Author and Subject are optional.

A tree structure is good for hiding stuff you don't want to look at.  If 
you want to browse through everything (expand the entire tree) it wastes 
vertical space.

James Simmons


Samuel Klein wrote:
> The screenshots help the discussion a great deal.
>
> Thinking in terms of how you sort and change views is useful, since
> there are a few very different use cases that could all rely on what
> Aleksey is describing [local calibre, active filesharing, global
> persistent file hosting and bundle creation/publishing among them]
>
> SJ
>
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:41:01AM -0700, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
>>     
>>> Sorry for posting the screenshot without text (I was reposting a compacted
>>> version of the original screenshot, which our list manager wisely refused to
>>> forward).  My original post was:
>>>
>>> I have attached a screenshot of calibre.  This is a very useful way to look
>>> at books, though I'm sure many improvements could be suggested.  (Clicking
>>> column headings sorts the grid.)
>>>       
>> Thanks for screens,
>> Library could have fileformat-backends to parse all these books related
>> properties from files to make calibre-like view more useful.
>>
>> --
>> Aleksey
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