[IAEP] Library Activity

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

To the extent that "Title", "Author", etc. are simply labels for two tags
that many ebook items have, and that one could establish others, it is a
good generalization of calibre's useful but fixed view. A lot of programs
(including the dreaded Windows) allow selection of which columns to display,
optimizing screen real estate for personal preferences.  And some types of
displays work much better for small sets of items as opposed to large ones.
The fisheye view in my last post is not at all useful for a large
collection, but it works well for a search result with a few to about a
hundred items.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:33 PM, James Simmons <jim.simmons at walgreens.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>>
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