LibraryThing<\/a>, which seems cheap enough, although part of the point of it is to share library information, which doesn’t particularly appeal to me. I could, of course, set up a database here on my pc, but I don’t want to type everything in by hand. I know there are lots of systems that will look up information in various on-line sources, but I don’t know how many of them are good, reliable and easy to use. And cheap. Or how well they balance all those things.\nI have about, let me see (counts under his breath ... five, six ...) umpty-’leven gazillion books, so I do not want to start on anything that will hit a limit, either with an actual limit or by getting slow and unmanageable when it gets big. I don’t particularly need the system that is the best at finding information on old or uncommon books, although I would like to be able to over-write or enter information myself, particularly for the handful of handmade or special-edition books in the collection. There are some benefits to having the thing on-line, particularly to be able to enter stuff from my Best Reader’s office, but there are also benefits to being about to download the database and put it on a CDR. Oh, and it has to work on a Windows PC, so Mac-only native software is no good (although of course web-based stuff is fine).\n
If any Gentle Reader has been using any book database, please let me know which one and how you like it. Also, if any of y’all have experience dealing with, say, the negative aspects of not<\/I> ever cataloguing your books, let me know; I wouldn’t mind being given a good reason not to bother with the whole thing.\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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