Libertab

Quotation marks You have all heard of people whom the loss of their books has turned into invalids, or of those who in order to acquire them became criminals. These are the very areas in which any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. “The only exact knowledge there is,” said Anatole France, “is the knowledge of the date of publication and the format of books.” And indeed, if there is a counterpart to the confusion of a library, it is the order of its catalog.

Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library

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catalog your books

Libertab is a web application that allows you to catalog and organize your books in dynamic lists, export bibliographies, manage your files, write book-related worknotes and keep trace of what you lend out. You can use it both as a cataloging and a studying tool.
It's free and it's a non-profit project.

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1. retrieve their
information

Gather the data of the books you want to add to your library from different databases over the web.

2. build up your
library

Set up your virtual bookshelf. You can use Libertab as a virtual catalog of your physical books and/or as the web storage for your files and notes.

3. access from
everywhere

You don't have to download anyhting. Just log in from wherever you are and find your books, your notes and your files.

write your
work notes

Take advantage of the distraction-free working mode to write your worknotes while reading a PDF or an EPUB.

organize your
books

A tag-based system allows you to create dynamic lists. Just set your books' tags and they will be automatically included.

make them
circulate

Libertab has a sharing system (read-only mode) and a full-featured loans-management interface to keep trace of what you lend out.