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| Registered: May 14, 2011 |  Posts: 1 |
| | Posted: | | | | Do you guys have a recommendation for the best home use cataloging software (on par with DVD Profiler) for books and music? |
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,879 |
| | Posted: | | | | I use Library Thing for my books. It's all web based though, no home computer software. It's very good if you don't have a lot of old, antique books. If you have a lot of those it's a bit time consuming to add them all. I like Orange CD's features for music, but it runs incredibly slowly on my PC. But my PC is very old, so other people might not have that problem. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
-- Thorin Oakenshield |
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| Registered: February 23, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,580 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Free: bookTome - great little program with a lot of nice feature.
One time fee: MediaMan - versatile with a very nice virtual bookshelf - can hand everthing you need. |
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 | W0m6at | | You're in for it now Tony |
| Registered: April 17, 2007 |  Posts: 1,091 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
Free: bookTome - great little program with a lot of nice feature. I've been using BookDB2, but am going to give this a try. I have a number of pre-ISBN books, so LibraryThing wasn't really for me. | | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) | | | | Last edited: by W0m6at |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting W0m6at: Quote:
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Free: bookTome - great little program with a lot of nice feature.
I've been using BookDB2, but am going to give this a try. I have a number of pre-ISBN books, so LibraryThing wasn't really for me. Hope you like it. I particularly like the Start Reading/Finish Reading feature.  |
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| W0m6at | | You're in for it now Tony |
| Registered: April 17, 2007 | | Posts: 1,091 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Pantheon: Quote:
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Quoting Pantheon:
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Free: bookTome - great little program with a lot of nice feature.
I've been using BookDB2, but am going to give this a try. I have a number of pre-ISBN books, so LibraryThing wasn't really for me.
Hope you like it.
I particularly like the Start Reading/Finish Reading feature. Is there a way to have multiple authors for a single book? I looked but can't find the option. Some of my novels are written by two (or in one case, three) authors. I think I can manipulate my existing data to a point where it can be imported, but not sure if I'll bother if it won't do this. | | | | Adelaide Movie Buffs (info on special screenings, contests, bargains, etc. relevant to Adelaideans... and contests/bargains for other Aussies too!) |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | Unfortunately there is no proper way to do this.
Basically you have 2 options:
1. Duplicate books that have more than one author so that they appear under each author name - this option only works if you don't care about the 'book count'. If how many books you own is unimportant then the duplicate feature works.
2. List only the primary author and then add the secondary authors in the description field.
I tend to do a combination of the two. So, for example, for James Patterson would be my primary before I think about Maxine Paetro or Andrew Gross. But, on the other hand, authors such as Paul Stewart & Chris Riddell who ALWAYS write together, I have duplicated.
According to the bookTome website a new version is in development with a complete overhaul...so this issue may be addressed in the future. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,819 |
| | Posted: | | | | After my last post I just went to the website and there is a notification stating that development has stopped!
I'm totally p**ed off!! |
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