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Dewey

Dewey is an open-source Collections editor for the Sony Reader PRS-505 (and maybe the PRS-700, but I don't have one to test). It is written in Cocoa and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.

At the moment, Dewey is fairly feature-limited:

• • Add and remove collections
• • Add and remove books from collections
• • Reorganise books within collections

To add a book to the PRS-505 on Mac OS X, first copy the file to the /database/media/books directory on the device, then unplug it from your Mac. When the Reader has loaded, plug it back in - you will then be able to place the book into a collection using Dewey. Eventually you’ll be able to do this all in one step using Dewey, but I need to write code to parse the eBook formats to extract the title and author of the book, amongst other things before I can implement that feature.

Getting the Application

To to download the latest public build of Dewey, click here. This archive contains the application and the code used to build that version.

Dewey can update itself to the latest version automatically. To check for updates, choose “Check for Updates…” from the Dewey menu. Please note that this will update the application but not the code.

Getting the Code

The code is available on our public BitBucket repository: http://bitbucket.org/ikenndac/dewey/. Instructions for getting the latest code are included on that page.