Chris J. Karr, March 20th, 2010

I wanted to post a quick note about the state of Codex development. With the announcement of the iPad, I’ve put the development of the cataloging tool on hold as I waited and saw what Apple releases with the new version of iTunes. In short, it appears that iTunes is being tweaked to handle book content as well as music and videos. Since it’s conceivable that the cataloging interface will be a lot like the rest of the application, I wanted to wait and see what that looked like before putting together functionality that Apple would simply replicate. Since everything’s ePub in this brave new world, Apple may end up doing much of the hard work that I originally planned.

I’m still moving forward with using ePub as a record medium for physical books. To encourage myself to move a bit quicker on this front, I’ve stopped using Books 3 as a means for cataloging my weekly comic book runs and the growing pile of issues will serve as a good motivator for getting the ePub creation tools out sooner rather than later.

Thank you for your continued patience and I look forward to discussing more about where Codex fits in an ePub-enabled iTunes future.