On June 19th, 2007 Adobe® released a new nice software gadget for managing locally your ebooks library, called Adobe Digital Editions. Application has a pleasant interface, allows to organize all the ebooks by virtual bookshelves and automatically extract a number of attributes of each ebook added like Title, Author, Publisher, Last Read, Date Added, Pages and Status.

An excerpt from Adobe® site:

Adobe® Digital Editions is an engaging new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications. It is built from the ground up as a lightweight rich Internet application (RIA). Adobe Digital Editions works online and offline and supports PDF- and XHTML-based content as well as Adobe Flash® SWF for rich interactivity.”

The intuitive and useful gadget. Try it out. Download and install it free from the Adobe® site.