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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Mawu[/i] [br]This year Santa brought a nice ebook reader (Sony PRS-T1) to me. Until now extreme Book Manager was only used to archive some "real" books. But from now on the program will have to handle hough amounts of electronic books. I've already tested some other software (Calibre, Alfa ebook Manager), but although they have some nice features concerning conversion and synchronisation the whole managment functions are not so smooth as xBM. But there are some additional features necessary compete with them: 1. Data Fields: - category field where I can distinguish between book categories like novel, short novel, lyric, Theater Play Scripts, non-fiction book - table of contets tab/field (Contents (multiple stories, articles, chapters)/table of contents) - Volume, Issue No. 2. Author Database: according to actors database in xMM there should an authors database. There should be an "author sort order" field to make it possible to sort the authors by last name. As I sort my ebooks according to "Last Name, First Name - Title" this scheme should be available for renaming and importing ebooks. 3. Metadata retrieving not only by parsing file names, but also by reading metadata from the file conent itself. Most important for me: pdf, epub 4.ebook file metadata: update from database data should be possible (instead of using Acrobat or other tools) 5. ISBN retrieving from file content (see alfaebooks) 6. Format of ebooks should be displayed in row and book card. Maybe like in xMM as small iscons for pdf, epub etc. If more than one format for a specific book is available all versions should be displayed side by side with an icon. At the moment there is only the format field to distinguish e.g. between paper books and ebooks. Thats not enough. 7. Copy, move and rename selected book files (with templates from stored data), which means xBM needs an integrated file manager in combination with a good filter system 8. Syncing with e-book reader devices 9. Syncing book collection with Google Library. 10. Syncing with the cloud (Skydrive, Dropbox) 11. Content server for online access to the book collection (Like Calibre) Bye Byte and Happy Coding Mawu [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.