[kwlug-disc] e-Readers -> e-Libraries - corners creased, sticky notes and bookmarks left in ... wha?

[Glenn Henshaw]

> On Dec 6, 2014, at 9:24 AM, B.S. <bs27975 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> Is there something / term / concept out there like an 'XBMC for "books"' out there? [Please pardon my abuse of 'XBMC' as 'merely' representing collecting all things audio and TV presentement, into a common front end / access mechanism.]
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> Further ... it occurs to me how many books I've picked up and put down (in theory to come back and further pursue later), perhaps with notes in margins, corners folded, bookmarks left, or sticky notes inserted. So perhaps a 'personal card catalogue' / indexing system is in play?
> 
> Is there an electronic version of 'all this stuff', what is it, and what is the current terms/concepts of whatever it is I am blindly and vaguely groping towards here?
> 
> - please note I run KDE/Kubuntu, not Gnome/Ubuntu, nor any 'light' display or window manager. So 'Gnome' solutions aren't going to help.
> 
> What be this beastie be? (Or, like IM and Skype recently, it's Beasties plural, and we just have to deal?)
> 

  Have you looked at Calibre <http://calibre-ebook.com <http://calibre-ebook.com/>>? 

-- 
Glenn Henshaw              Santa Clara, California

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