Chris J. Karr, March 20th, 2010
I wanted to post a quick note about the state of Codex development. With the announcement of the iPad, I’ve put the development of the cataloging tool on hold as I waited and saw what Apple releases with the new version of iTunes. In short, it appears that iTunes is being tweaked to handle book content as well as music and videos. Since it’s conceivable that the cataloging interface will be a lot like the rest of the application, I wanted to wait and see what that looked like before putting together functionality that Apple would simply replicate. Since everything’s ePub in this brave new world, Apple may end up doing much of the hard work that I originally planned.
I’m still moving forward with using ePub as a record medium for physical books. To encourage myself to move a bit quicker on this front, I’ve stopped using Books 3 as a means for cataloging my weekly comic book runs and the growing pile of issues will serve as a good motivator for getting the ePub creation tools out sooner rather than later.
Thank you for your continued patience and I look forward to discussing more about where Codex fits in an ePub-enabled iTunes future.
August 17th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Thanks Chris for the effort. Its no use fighting against Steve Jobs… However, also with ePub growing, there will be still much room for a cataloguing tool like Books/Codex.
May 10th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Just curious about what all you’re doing. Is Codex going to be something for cataloging physical books AND organizing ebooks? What do you mean by using epub format for physical books?
Currently using Booxter for cataloging and Calibre for ebooks, but both have their issues and I’m interested in seeing what else shows up.
I used Books back when, but dropped it for Booxter because it wasn’t being developed and I wanted iPhone sync.