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Managing your book collection online
Manage your book collection online at http://parchayi.net/bookshelf
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Managing your book collection online
An interesting idea, but when "Robert B. Parker" and "Patricia Cornwell" are
returned as unknown, one has to entertain some reservations. On the topic, for the book software out there, any comments on which one is best for a novice??? Willow "SD" wrote in message ... Manage your book collection online at http://parchayi.net/bookshelf |
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What I am doing is using Paradox for Windows, a Corel database program, to
create and link databases for authors and books. It is actually fairly easy to use and allows you to filter and sort the database almost any way you want to examine what you have. It is taking forever, but that is because I am researching the biographies of each and every author, and finding years of birth and death on some - even finding years of birth on current well-known authors - sometimes takes a lot of work. The fields in my "Authors" database, for instance, are Name, Nationality, Year Born, Year Died, Main Genre, Comment. The comment section might look something like this: "b Tientsin China d KeyWest FL to US 1925 war novel" - that for John Hersey. Francis A. Miniter Willow Arune wrote: An interesting idea, but when "Robert B. Parker" and "Patricia Cornwell" are returned as unknown, one has to entertain some reservations. On the topic, for the book software out there, any comments on which one is best for a novice??? Willow "SD" wrote in message ... Manage your book collection online at http://parchayi.net/bookshelf |
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Not so long ago, Francis A. Miniter wrote:
What I am doing is using Paradox for Windows, a Corel database program, to create and link databases for authors and books. It is actually fairly easy to use and allows you to filter and sort the database almost any way you want to examine what you have. It is taking forever, but that is because I am researching the biographies of each and every author, and finding years of birth and death on some - even finding years of birth on current well-known authors - sometimes takes a lot of work. The fields in my "Authors" database, for instance, are Name, Nationality, Year Born, Year Died, Main Genre, Comment. The comment section might look something like this: "b Tientsin China d KeyWest FL to US 1925 war novel" - that for John Hersey. There's a commercial product called Readerware that you can use an old cuecat to scan in your ISBNs. PC/Mac/Linux/Palm http://www.readerware.com/ And a freeware called BookBase http://bookbase.sourceforge.net/ used MySQL on the backend I've been reasonably happy with Readerware. Now that I think about it, you could use the software for ABEbooks.com merchants probably -- Joe Morris Live music in Atlanta http://jolomo.net/atlanta/shows.html |
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Willow Arune wrote:
An interesting idea, but when "Robert B. Parker" and "Patricia Cornwell" are returned as unknown, one has to entertain some reservations. What are you talking about. It found both of them!!! On the topic, for the book software out there, any comments on which one is best for a novice??? Willow "SD" wrote in message ... Manage your book collection online at http://parchayi.net/bookshelf |
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Managing your book collection online
Francis A. Miniter wrote:
What I am doing is using Paradox for Windows, a Corel database program, to create and link databases for authors and books. It is actually fairly easy to use and allows you to filter and sort the database almost any way you want to examine what you have. It is taking forever, but that is because I am researching the biographies of each and every author, and finding years of birth and death on some - even finding years of birth on current well-known authors - sometimes takes a lot of work. Do you plan on making this information available publicly on a website or anywhere else. I would appreciate this information for inclusion at http://www.ibookdb.net/. Just to let you know, ibookdb will initially be based on information from the following sources: 1. the parchayi.net database (previous poster obviously did not do a proper search or misspelled the authors while searching) 2. audible.com data feed 3. random house book database (i think that goes back to 1970 or so) I hope to gather book descriptions from either amazon or BN. I'm not impressed by the book descriptions available from Amazon so I'm hoping BN responds quickly. At one point they agreed to let me have the data feed, however they keep saying I need to have a price comparison for them to give it to me. I offered a buy from BN link on every page, however that is not enough! I think I would have maybe 12-15000 authors and maybe 90-12000 books listed. I think for fiction you can gather author information from fantasticfiction.co.uk SD The fields in my "Authors" database, for instance, are Name, Nationality, Year Born, Year Died, Main Genre, Comment. The comment section might look something like this: "b Tientsin China d KeyWest FL to US 1925 war novel" - that for John Hersey. Francis A. Miniter Willow Arune wrote: An interesting idea, but when "Robert B. Parker" and "Patricia Cornwell" are returned as unknown, one has to entertain some reservations. On the topic, for the book software out there, any comments on which one is best for a novice??? Willow "SD" wrote in message ... Manage your book collection online at http://parchayi.net/bookshelf |
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