Maktaba Talib - A student's library

For the student of arabic and islamic sciences in general there exist several websites that allow searching and downloading of books. However in my view they lack certain features which I would like to implment in (yet another) DMS, namely:

• Downloading in common formats such as .pdf .doc .txt (Please no .rar and .mdb)
• Extract as much meta-data as possible and allow searching/browsing/ordering on any of the extracted fields
• Tag content with keywords
• Read books online with an easy to use inline reader and allow annotating/bookmarking of content
• Place books on your own virtual shelf/book case
• Share books with others
• Search inside books where the source format allows indexing (non-images)
• read/write reviews of books
• rate books
• Create bookmarks of pages/parts of pages
• Bookmarks may be linked to descriptions of authors and books and other things as well?
• These can then be rated as well so that the best descriptions rise to the top
• Allow bookmarks to be arranged in groups (General, To Read, Research Topic A, ...)
• The project should be sufficiently self-maintaining (crawling certain websites looking for new titles) and documented that any sufficiently knowledgeable IT person can duplicate the entire site and let the software re-download any content and re-index it. User data however would be problematic as that of course.
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Software identified

Some software packages have been identified as possible starting points for the customizations that my desired list of features would necessitate:

• Wikindx
• Bibsonomy
• Bookreader software from http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader

Both seem to provide very nice web interfaces and overall structure, however neither is complete for the requirements that I have.

Source materials

Plugins will have to be written to allow adding content from the following websites:

• waqfiyah (Sometimes contains links to archive.org & Shamila)
• shamila.ws
• archive.org
• rapidshare/ 4share (?)
• http://islamicbookslibrary.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/dars-e-nizami-books-collections/ ( Som Dars-e-Nizami books on archive.org)
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