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

[Paul W. Rankin]

On 2021-02-05 14:40, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org> writes:
> > 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.
>
> An alternative is keeping all the books as org headings.

I'd echo Joost's recommendation to use BibTex and Ebib, which is an 
incredible package. You can also edit the raw BibTex library file with 
bibtex-mode. This is definitely the best way if you ever intend to cite 
any of the books.

Another option is GNU recutils [1] which is a plain text relational 
database. It comes with an Emacs interface. This is if you want to do 
fancy things like keeping a single record for each author, then 
performing a join for their books, with record like this:

author: Joey Jojo Shabadoo
id: 12

title: The Critique of Pure Raisins
year: 1995
author_id: 12

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/