Sharing photo's in aperture en iphoto

I have all my photo's in Iphoto. Now I want to use Aperture, but my wife still wants to use Iphoto.
Does anybody know if there is a way to use the same photo directory and library using Iphoto as well as Aperture? I don't want to duplicate all my photo's on my harddisk.

I just ran into the same problem. I was going to switch to Aperture completely until iPhoto went from 5 to 6. It has a lot of the new features that Aperture has but there are still some awesome features in Aperture that I can't live without. One thing Aperture is missing is that it doesn't check for duplicates when importing pics. So what I decided to do is use iPhoto as my importer (whether from a camera or folder), and then use Aperture's import menu to import the rolls or pictures I want. If you haven't tried it out yet, do so. It is really awesome since it lets you select the rolls as they are saved in iPhoto and gives you a preview of each picture.

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