We have a lot of books - and over the years we have tried to keep track of some of these in various versions of databases.

The current favourites are Bookpedia on the Mac's - and iBookshelf on the iPhone, mainly because both of them can read barcodes using the built in cameras, a very handy feature.

This of course means that I would like to export data from iBookshelf on the iPhone and import the same data into Bookpedia, and as both support .csv files to do this, everything should be ok - not so.

The export file from iBookshelf looks like this :

Neal Stephenson is up to something interesting - again :

We are developing our first project, The Mongoliad.

The Mongoliad is a new kind of serialized novel, created by Neal Stephenson, and written by Neal, Greg Bear, Nicole Galland, Mark Teppo, and a number of other great authors. It will be told via custom apps on iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Android, and will be something of an experiment in post-book publishing and storytelling.

From Boingboing - Chine Mieville is one of my favourite authors :

China Mieville talks about his new hard-boiled/fantastic novel Rick Kleffel sez, "I've recently posted an interview with China Miéville about his new book, The City & The City -- certainly one of the most unusual books you could read this year. He talks about the challenges of working in two genres -- the fantastic and the hard-boiled mystery genre -- in one novel." [From China Mieville talks about his new hard-boiled/fantastic novel]