On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 02:57:21PM -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:12 PM, James Simmons <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Aleksey, > > > > ... In the > > Calibre screenshot we had File Size, Publisher, Date, Series, and I > > could easily do without any of them. > > Whereas I would use each of them frequently. > > o File Size is particularly useful for deciding what to dump when you > are running out of space, considering also whether you can download it > again at need, or perhaps should back it up first. > > o I am researching textbook publishers, and would find it incredibly > useful to have their catalogs in such a system with appropriate > tagging. > > o Date is extremely helpful in navigating Series, and looking at the > development of a subject. > > o Series is particularly useful for collections by multiple authors > and even multiple publishers, such as the 40+ canonical Oz books and > the 100+ titles since, not all of them for children. > > > Considering that most users of Sugar are going to be children enforcing > > a minimum structure couldn't hurt. > > I don't like enforcement, but I do approve of useful defaults. I > recommend having a way to store several sets of settings for different > purposes. I also suggest some level of integration with Browse, so > that bookmarking a URL for a document file can automatically add it to > the book list for easy downloading. counted :) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Library#Going_further
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