One small note -- as of Bookends 9.0.3 you can drag the pdf link (or proxy icon) directly to a Bookends database window and it will be imported without the need to download the file first.
Very useful. Thanks Jon.
I hope no one minds too much if I hijack this thread a bit. I was wondering about this:
if I want to cite / quote different parts of a book, does each need a separate entry?
Of course we have to create separate entries in the database for separate chapters.
But I wonder whether Bookends could help a bit more than it does at a later stage, that is, with the production of bibliographies with chapters from edited books in them.
It seems to me that it would be convenient if Bookends could figure out that two or more chapters from the same book had been cited and (optionally) format the references appropriately, like this:
Bilgrami, A., & Rovane, C. (2005). Mind, language, and the limits of inquiry. In McGilvray (2005a) (pp. 181–203).
McGilvray, J. (Ed.). (2005a). The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McGilvray, J. (2005b). Meaning and creativity. In McGilvray (2005a) (pp. 204–22).
Rai, M. (2005). Market values and libertarian socialist values. In McGilvray (2005a) (pp. 225–39).
Smith, N. (2005). Chomsky’s science of language. In McGilvray (2005a) (pp. 21–41).
I don't know of any reference managing software that can do this, although it seems like the kind of thing computers should be good at.
I can see there might be problems because there would have to be links between references in the database saying which chapters belonged to which book. But it would be very useful. Formatting a bibliography like this is often expected, sometimes required and can save a lot of space.
And it's no fun editing a bibliography by hand to get it this way.
