Bibliography tools & reading lists September 20, 2005
Posted by admin in : Info , trackbackI’ve been wanting a tool for managing lists of books and resources, like bibliographies. What I really want is to be able to just have on-line access to bibliographies found in books that I have read, or course reading lists (like MIT OCW), or any arbitrary list, like Books-I-Own, Books-I-Want-To-Buy, Books-I-Want-To-Read, Books-On-Some-Topic, Books-I-Lost-In-The-Hurricane, etc. That would then be an on-line resource for my self, something I could share. I’ve seen some things like it, and I will be keeping track of those tools, like:
- RedLightGreen (search for books, manage an MLA-style list)
- Amazon Wishlist/Listmania/Webservices
- Wikipedia Book source
But nothing is quite right. I know there are personal inventory applications out there, I might look at those.
But I think what I’d like is a tool that allows you to view a book on-line, click a tool in your browser toolbar, and capture that book’s data. Perhaps it captures the ISBN, looks up the detail from a webservice by ISBN, and saves the info into your list. Amazon’s wishlist and listmania are almost perfect, but you’re only searching that inventory, and it’s all organized for you to buy the book, so it’s meaningless if the list you want to create is Books-I-Own.
I might make my own application that does this, but Amazon and RedLightGreen come so close, I’d really like to find an existing tool if there is one.
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