I am new to the Mac, and was browsing around to find a nice ebook reader, since I sometimes read books off of gutenberg.org. Then I had a brainstorm: why not use a Scrivener file as my ebook library? Each book could have a notecard, and I of course could read them in full-screen mode.
I think it will work. I just put Jane Austen’s “Persuasion” into a file, and it looks great full-screen with green letters on a black page.
I use Scrivener for analyzing books. I think it’s a good tool for that. I only use it for non-fiction. Right now I’m reading and analyzing “Programming in Objective-C” by Stephen G. Kochan using Scrivener . I use different color highlights for different things: yellow for important keywords, pink for things I do not understand, blue for important stuff I have to test and so on. I just whish you could export the different highlights just as you can export annotations (in the new beta). In that way I could have list of different aspects (views) of the book.
I’ve entered it by hand . Next time I’ll buy a decent scanner. I wish more publishing companies would sell their books as pdf as well as hard copies. Especially important for us who live in the outskirts of civilization.