Posts Tagged ‘reading’

An Automator workflow for bibliophiles

Saturday, March 22, 2008 19:50 1 Comment

A few posts back I described my experience trying to create a workflow to automate the process of exporting my Delicious Library (DL) catalog to LibraryThing (LT).
Here is the Automator workflow I created: open up Delicious Library, export the book catalog (an XML file) to my desktop, copy the location path of this newly created [...]

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Automator Frustration

Monday, March 17, 2008 23:05 2 Comments

So, I spent my evening working on a simple Automator workflow to streamline the ’synching’ of Delicious Library (DL) and LibraryThing (LT) book catalogs. It’s really not ’synching:’ LibraryThing can ’synch’ only in the sense that it can compare a DL book catalog (desktop app) with the LT book catalog (web-based app) so that only [...]

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LibraryThing and Delicious Library

Saturday, March 15, 2008 14:01 3 Comments

Today is the Ides of March, the day of Julius Caesar’s untimely demise in 44 B.C. What’s does this have to do with the Mac?
Well, I first thought of Caesar. Then I thought of Colleen McCullough’s excellent Masters of Rome historical fiction series, which I recently finished reading. That got me thinking about books [...]

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