Sonny Software

Looking at Amazon's new Media Library, I noticed that it's possible to add books by their ISBN numbers (purchases from Amazon are automatically added). It would be great to add titles from my BE database to take advantage of Amazon's online book reader (which is part of the media library bookshelf, and also allows for e-highlighting and annotations for some works).

Would it be possible to export just data from the ISBN field to CSV format? That would make adding BE works so easy (too convenient, perhaps).

Thanks in advance.

You want to export a single field from Bookends for each reference? Yes, that's trivial.

Create a new format that contains the single field (ISBN would be user6, or u6). Then select all references and

Biblio -> Bibliography Formatter -> To disk as plain text.

Note that each "reference" will be separated by a retun. So open up the text file in a text editor (e.g. TextEdit or TextWrangler) and do a search replace for return/comma.

Jon
Sonny Software

Thanks Jon!