[IAEP] Library Activity

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

Here is fisheye.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:

> 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.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Aleksey
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