MediaMonkey for ebooks?

[gannon]

I have been searching far and wide for ebook library software (MediaMonkey for PDF, CHM and the like), but have come up with nothing. Google Suggest suggested that others have tried the same. Does anyone know of any software like this? If not, I will have to make it, because my ebook collection is getting crazy...

[Steegy]

I will have to make it

Hahaha. I bet that most e-book readers are programmers...
Unfortunately I don't know of any good application to organise e-books. I have them all ordered in a nice folder structure so I can find them fast and easily. I'm not really in the need for an e-book organiser (because I don't switch e-books as fast as I switch songs), but if you find a program then I'd like to know too.

[Lowlander]

An ebook application with Auto-Tag from Amazon would be real nice. I currently am using a website I designed for browsing the books, but have to manually get the Amazon data.

[gannon]

I did find eLibPro (freeware). However, it's not exactly "MediaMonkey for ebooks." It does let you add books one-by-one (no file scan) and retrieves the book info and cover from amazon.com, and you can then add a link to the book entry for the file on your hard disk. Not really what I was looking for since the only advantage it has over Explorer is the amazon.com info, and there is no "list view" -- only "huge icon view."

I will probably just use this program since it exists, although something that scans for files, sizes down pics such that you can still discern the text on them (this one just uses a "pixel resize"), has multiple list views, and allows you to mark books as read and reading would be nice. This one does let you add custom text for that, but it's only visible once you've selected the book.

[gannon]

Oh, actually it does have a details view as well as the cover view; don't know how I missed it.

[gannon]

Hahaha, actually, it turns out you can just drag and drop your files into the window and they all get added automatically (that -- or -- make a .txt file with all the ISBNs and open it). As for the pictures being scaled poorly, I'll just do a batch resize on them. And I'll be editing the template for displaying the book info to suit my needs. eLibPro is definitely the solution for organizing your eBooks... (They don't really point these features out to you, which is how I missed them. >_<) Oh and I used Resource Hacker to change "Favorites" to "Want List", heh. So actually the only thing I wish the program did was use the PDF and CHM icons on your system instead of their green book icon, but oh well -- close enough...

[gannon]

OK for anyone interested in organizing their eBooks... MediaMan is far superior to eLibPro. It does cost $40, so I would still like to know of good alternatives if anyone knows anything. Funny, all I had to do was replace Monkey with Man! It took countless hours to find out about this damned software. >_<

[GH]

MediaMonkey has the potential to be "Multi-purpose Manager for Serious Collectors". I'm also trying to find MediaMonkey for ebooks, and I feel that MediaMonkey is the best solution for managing any media. Hopefully MediaMonkey will support more file types (e.g. .pdf, .doc, etc...) and this will end the finding for the ultimate media manager.

[Blake]

Don't get your hopes high.

[Steegy]

You guys must be dreaming....
you first have to walk well before you can run.

[Clouseau]

I think I'm part way there for getting MediaMonkey to be my eBook repository. I used the WinAmp SDK sample for IN_RAW and modified it to make plugin dll's for TXT and LIT files which I place in my Plugins directory. MediaMonkey will now search for and catalog TXT and LIT files in my database, and the TXT files open up fine. The LIT files open up MSReader but it only opens to the Library view (not the ebook that opened the reader... strange).

I'll gladly post the resulting dll's and/or code if anyone is interested. And if anyone can help with opening LIT files I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to use:

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ShellExecute(NULL,"open",fn,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);

where fn is the passed file name.

[Zealot]

I've only recently begun using MM, but using it for ebooks sounds like a god send.

Clouseau,
I'm not a professional coder, but I've managed to figure out a few things in Python and VBA. Does your plugin support anything else besides TXT and LIT? PDF would be great. Does it lump the files in with the music list or does it create a new directory?

Thanks,
Z

[rovingcowboy]

I think I'm part way there for getting MediaMonkey to be my eBook repository. I used the WinAmp SDK sample for IN_RAW and modified it to make plugin dll's for TXT and LIT files which I place in my Plugins directory. MediaMonkey will now search for and catalog TXT and LIT files in my database, and the TXT files open up fine. The LIT files open up MSReader but it only opens to the Library view (not the ebook that opened the reader... strange).

I'll gladly post the resulting dll's and/or code if anyone is interested. And if anyone can help with opening LIT files I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to use:

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ShellExecute(NULL,"open",fn,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);

where fn is the passed file name.

try getting deskbot from bellcraft.com and an msagent of your liking set it up on xp computers you need to get the sapi 4 from microsoft.com/msagents and a voice engine from there too, so you can hear the agents voice other wise you don't get any,in xp. in vista you get the default voice when you use msagents no matter what the agent is, its always the same voice..

you will need to make the deskbot load first and then you can open your ebooks and copy them to the clip board. the deskbot will read them for you. same thing can be done with txt files any thing that is copied to the clipboard will be read by the deskbot if the deskbot is loaded and on the screen first.

its only hard to get the ebooks copied to the clipboard. but as a programmer you should beable to do that. after all i'm not a programmer and i thought of it so it can't be that hard?

[Zealot]

I think I'm part way there for getting MediaMonkey to be my eBook repository. I used the WinAmp SDK sample for IN_RAW and modified it to make plugin dll's for TXT and LIT files which I place in my Plugins directory. MediaMonkey will now search for and catalog TXT and LIT files in my database, and the TXT files open up fine. The LIT files open up MSReader but it only opens to the Library view (not the ebook that opened the reader... strange).

I'll gladly post the resulting dll's and/or code if anyone is interested. And if anyone can help with opening LIT files I'd appreciate it. I'm trying to use:

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ShellExecute(NULL,"open",fn,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);

where fn is the passed file name.

try getting deskbot from bellcraft.com and an msagent of your liking set it up on xp computers you need to get the sapi 4 from microsoft.com/msagents and a voice engine from there too, so you can hear the agents voice other wise you don't get any,in xp. in vista you get the default voice when you use msagents no matter what the agent is, its always the same voice..

you will need to make the deskbot load first and then you can open your ebooks and copy them to the clip board. the deskbot will read them for you. same thing can be done with txt files any thing that is copied to the clipboard will be read by the deskbot if the deskbot is loaded and on the screen first.

its only hard to get the ebooks copied to the clipboard. but as a programmer you should beable to do that. after all i'm not a programmer and i thought of it so it can't be that hard?

MSReader will read your books aloud, but I don't think that's what Clouseau meant. MSReader also keeps track of all the .lit files it has ever opened, and if you just open reader (as opposed to double clicking on the icon), it will open in "Library" mode, and display all your titles. I believe that Clouseau was trying to get it to open to the specific title that he clicked on in Mediamonkey instead.

Regards,
Z

[rovingcowboy]

yes but msreader is old.

i know he wanted to open it with mediamonkey, since he got the monkey to list the ebooks in the playlist he just needed to open the ebook to see it and read it.

but since hes a programmer he could program deskbot to open with a script. in monkey anytime he opens his ebook in monkey. the options in deskbot allow to have deskbot load on screen at its start up and show the agent.

so all he would need to do is open the ebook by clicking on the file in the playlist or the libray node have it auto copy to the clipboard and bingo deskbot starts reading the ebook.

but programming the script to run all that is something i can't do.