1. keep book, ebooks or any publication reference and links
It would be great to be able to save book references and manage collections in order to :
- Access to a list of ebooks and other electronic publications to read them.
- Create, share, search for books, ebooks or publications (online or not) references,
- import a bibliography in a document,
- save online articles to disk.
- Take notes on the publication, print them, share them.
1.1. Integration and problems
- Integrating documents such as PDF into the application creates a risk of conflict between searching books as a leisure and managing a huge document library.
- Dealing with articles/ebooks that are accessible on the computer and real books or non accessible books might conflict.
1.2. On epiphany-browser
- We might make a difference between create a bookmark to go often to an adress (access to webmail quickly for example) and bookmarks used to remind a specific page (hostel page, online article etc.)
- Users could in a single click save the content of the page, URL and metadata of the webpage (if an article, authors, newspaper etc.)
These references might be taken from epiphany
1.3. Potential solution
- create an app that deals with ebooks only or ebooks and other publication documents (saved on the disk).
- create another app aimed specifically to managing bibliography, research project etc. The problem of what to import in it still exist : what is a publication (which documents to import from disk to such an app ?) ? How to get metadata without the users having to fill it ?
- integrate to epiphany a system to archive webpages and metadata for publications
Or:
- Create a single app that include references to real books, electronic publications, available or not.
1.4. See also
- Zotero
- Tracker