Re: [emacs-humanities] Emacs as a library manager

[John Rakestraw]

On 4 Feb 2021, at 10:44, Luis Henriques wrote:

> Anyway, using .bib  seems to be a very good suggestion (the best one I 
> got
> in this thread so far!).  Again, thanks and I'll definitely give Ebib 
> a
> try.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Luís

I hesitate to jump in here because others have much more experience than 
I do. I only recently started using bibtext/ebib to manage both books 
and journal articles that I'm reading, and the project is expanding to 
include books that I own. The one element I've added that I don't think 
has been mentioned here is zotero (https://www.zotero.org/). When I 
locate a journal article I want to read, I download the bib record into 
zotero and then download the article itself. When I want to add a book 
to my database, I find it in the university catalog and download the 
record into zotero. I regularly export the zotero records into a 
BibLaTeX database and then use Ebib to merge the newly exported database 
with my existing records. Ebib is very good at avoiding duplication of 
records, and I find it a very good tool for managing the library and 
also for organizing notes as I read a particular text. Thanks very much 
for your work on this, Joost.

Again, I suspect that others have a more efficient way of maintaining 
such things -- and I'm eager to learn from your experience -- but this 
is working very well for me thus far.

--John