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Mawu
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Germany
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 Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 15:08:45
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Hi Alessio,
what about integrating magazines and comics also into XBM? |
www.schlemmerkino.de - Die Nr.1 für filmische Leckereien |
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Alessio Viti
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Italy
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Mawu
Senior Member
Germany
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Posted - 05 Nov 2010 : 21:48:27
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Hi Alessio,
books, comics and magazines have a lot in common: all three are available as paper prints and/or ebooks, they can share most of the database fields in a managing software etc. Why not managing all the paper/ebooks stuff in one software?
Comics: One of the competitors (collectorz.com) offers a comic collector were you can use as source of inspiration. For comics beside pdf an additional format should be supported:Comic Book Archive file (CBR) see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Archive_file
Magazines: in scientific research there some programs like Endnote(www.endnote.com) available which have the focus on managing single articles. Although you can also order single articles for "normal" magazines (like computer magazines, playboy magazine ;-) ...) I think people will usually have the full magazine in hand or on the hard disk as ebook. Therefore I would favour to manage not single articles (although you can keep in mind to support also single article management). For magazines you can use maybe a kind of reduced set of data fields in comparison to books, but with few additional fields. Most important thing will be a additional tab for "Table Of Contents" (which should be also available for books). One example: I have a big collection of "Cinema" movie magazine (from 1985 up to now). I want to type in the core data for each volume with cover and table of contents. In the table of contents I want to have infos like article headline, author, site,rubric. For a movie magazine article headlines will be the movies. Now I want to be able to search in which volume the review of a particular movie is available or I want to export a list "article_headline=movie, Volume, Site...)
You have to keep in mind that the boundaries between the books, comics and magazines can overlap from time to time (e.g. MAD magazine is a comic, but also a magazine)
Bye Byte and Happy Coding |
www.schlemmerkino.de - Die Nr.1 für filmische Leckereien |
Edited by - Mawu on 05 Nov 2010 22:50:42 |
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Chris Lotz
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Posted - 15 Jan 2011 : 09:40:48
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I agree with Mawu, This may also help in integrating the comic book portion, if you could create a script to pull the details from: http://www.comics.org/
This has most if not almost all comics series information, but I would even buy the book manager if it supported comics and other book or ebook formats, I would even add/edit everything myself if you added the basic features :)
I find your software very comprehensive and easy to use and I think if you continue the development and adding features and suggestions you can put the competition in it's place. IMO Collectorz is very primitive looking, it has features but still looks like an old Access Database... Your managers have both looks and database features packaged in one. I may even purchase your Music Manager, I need to research the features more before I migrate. |
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Alessio Viti
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