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iBookTracker

May 3, 2013

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An app to manage personal book collection

Introduction

Like many book lovers who had subscribed to the Amazon Reading List app in LinkedIn, I was deeply saddened when LinkedIn discontinued that feature. There is now a way to import this list to Shelfari and then even download your book list to your own computer. However, Shelfari has features I don't want and lacks features I need. So I plan to build my own books tracker - the iBookTracker, to manage the books (both real and digital) that I read and collect. Hopefully it will be of interest to  other book lovers too who wish to take good care of their books. 

Why Azure? 

These are the top 3 reasons I find Azure useful: 

  • Easy to get started - build your application with Visual Studio or WebMatrix, click Publish when you're done  
  • Multiple deployment options  
  • Scale on demand - computing resources can be added or removed based on website visitor volume, and budgeted cost without any major upfront fees. 

(I have an Azure account via MSDN)