How to organize a modern electronic library
Books / / December 19, 2019
Fast and steady transition of books in electronic form, which we have the happiness to you observe in recent years, not only completely changed the way of reading, but also set a number of new front bibliophile issues. Where to get new literature? As it is more convenient to store their books and keep a record of pending \ read books? How to save your notes in the margins and share their impressions of the book?
In this article you will learn how I solved all these issues and organized a personal electronic library using the online service Springpad. Looking ahead, I will say that I am fully satisfied the result, so it seemed to me that this experience is worthy of your attention.
First of all, I would like to enumerate a list of tasks that I would like to solve with the help of this service. I am sure that most of them are familiar to any bibliophile.
- Organization of the list of literature to read. Around us many interesting books that I want to read and so little time that I want to come up with something more comfortable with a simple text file names. I want to be beautiful, with covers, annotation and search.
- Keeping books. In addition to names, it would be good to keep then existing book files. It is desirable to be able to access them from anywhere and from any device.
- List of reading. To read books not immediately eroded from the head, it is necessary to put them on a separate shelf. With the evaluation of the content, a short summary and notes made during reading.
- Sharing. It was great to not only to use the library, but also be able to share any book with friends or colleagues, and even arrange a discussion.
As you can see, the list is not small, but for all its points in the Springpad found necessary functions. Let me remind you that Springpad - a service to store your notes, links, images and other materials that can be regarded as a competitor Evernote. All the information in it can be organized in a separate notebook. Notebooks come in regular and special designed to hold only a certain kind of information. As one of these special notepads developers are offering us a separate folder to store your book collection. Let's see how it can be used for our purposes.
Adding books
Add books into Springpad several ways. There is a web-based interface, special extensions Clipper for browsers, mobile apps for Android and iOS. Thus, no matter where you found the mention of the publication you are interested - on the web page, in a letter, forum or chat - it immediately, you can send to your reading list. adding window is as follows.
If you enter the name in English, the service itself will search for you the relevant information carefully and fill in all the fields, including the cover art, genre, author, and even a brief description. For Russian-language publications have to do it all by hand, which, however, is not difficult. As a result of your reading list takes on the appetizing appearance, as illustrated in the beginning of this post, or, if you prefer something more modest, in the form of a list.
Download files
To save time in the search for downloaded, purchased, to borrow once books among archives all over the hard drive, they are best stored in one place. E-library-based service Springpad for this wonderful, because it allows upload an unlimited number of files, the size of which does not exceed 25 MB, which is more than enough for texts.
To add files to open the books Edit menu and select the item Add Link or File. After downloading it will appear at the bottom of the file under the cover image. Now all your files are in good order and ready to be downloaded on any device that you prefer to use for reading.
After reading
Read the book, what's next?
Personally, I, probably like many knigomanam not want to leave so soon liked the book. In addition, sometimes it is necessary to apply to the material again to clarify any nuances. Therefore it is necessary to read the book moved to a special shelf where no one would not interfere, but they were always at hand. And Springpad is very well provided for.
Simply move the switch, which is available on the card for each publication, in position Read, and the book goes on the shelf reading. Simultaneously, a small window appears with a proposal to write a review, comment on the content. Here you can appreciate the book on the five-point system. Those books that will get you to an assessment in four or five points, will go on a special shelf of favorites.
joint use
One of the strengths of Springpad - is its openness. This service has everything you need to be shared, so that you can easily share as a separate book, and in general all its library. To "give read" book, you simply find the button Share near the desired book. The result will be created a special page, a link to which you can post to Facebook, Twitter or send to the right person via e-mail.
If you want to share all of their library, when you click Invite you only need to enter the email addresses of your friends and send them an invitation to share. you invited people will also be able to add their books, edit, add comments, in general, to become full owners of your bookshelves. Thus it is possible to organize the library not only for themselves, but, for example, for the whole family, student groups, or even your company.
Of course, I proposed approach, despite all its advantages, is not without disadvantages. Springpad in any case not suitable for those people who download and store on your hard disk gigabytes of text. I proposed approach involves manually adding books, independent search for cover, writing comments about his impressions from reading. In short, this method is more suitable for those who really reads and does not collect voluminous archives, which, alas, never to be opened.
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