[IAEP] Library Activity

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

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On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:

> Here is fisheye.
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> 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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