[Alexandria-list] CSV import

[Ian Davey]

Cathal Mc Ginley wrote:
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 > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:46:42 -0500
 > Timothy Malone <timothy.malone at gmail.com> wrote:
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 >> I've been working on an import filter for CSV files and had a few
 >> questions. The primary focus of my filter is the CSV format used by
 >> goodreads.com (sorta like librarything).
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 > Neat. LibraryThing import is also somewhere on our list of things to do.

One useful feature that LibraryThing also has is an RSS feed of recently 
added books. So Alexandria could potentially plug into that to 
automatically update a library (or perhaps just show the feed results as 
some kind of virtual library to let you drag books into one of the 
static libraries you've defined).

As for the reading management side of things, I'm happy to do some work 
on that once the core has been stabilised. I made a start in the past, 
and added some elements as a new tab in the UI and adding some of the 
required fields. It was done as more of a learning exercise to get to 
grips with Ruby/Glade/GTK and I've still got the code lying around 
somewhere, but there have been quite a few releases since then.

As a more immediate thing I could pad out the wiki page with some more 
detailed requirements.

ian.