[Bibdesk-users] Ebook readers

[Jonas Z. <li...@jo...>]

Dear All,

Just a couple of days ago I got myself a PRS 600 ebook reader. I'm  
very keen to get my BibDesk PDFs on my new device. First of all, the  
Sony eLibrary manager seems to be quite useless, as it doesn't even  
allow simple metadata changes of PDF files, so my titles and authors  
are whatever the publishers chose to fill the fields with, usually  
DOIs or rubbish data.
I then came across Calibre, which seems to be able to fill lots of  
different ebook readers and is basically an ugly incarnation of  
BibDesk without Bibtex support.

Is there a way to populate PDF metadata from BibDesk? The AppleScript  
properties seem to be read-only ...
If there was a way, however, another nuisance would be that Calibre  
insists on keeping its own library of PDFs, so I would end up with a  
copy of all my papers. I would not want to change my current system  
and move to a probably less stable document management with Calibre,  
so I guess my ultimate question would be: Is ebook reader support  
feasible with BibDesk? Calibre is open source and seems to rely on  
plugins to support different reader platforms, so could that source  
probably be tapped?
I could imagine that the availability of more ebook devices (welcome,  
nook, plastic logic [?]) which due to their ability to add notes can  
be seriously used in a scientific workflow will eventually lead to  
many people using BibDesk wanting to have their libraries on such a  
device.
What are your thoughts on this, and does anyone else use an ebook  
reader peace- and successfully with BibDesk?

Best,
Jonas