How do you catalog your books?

Bud Webster wrote:
On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:48:57 -0400, SD
wrote:




I'm just looking at what features I can add to my service. I don't care if you
use or like it or anything else.


And had you been open and honest about it, you might even have gotten
some constructive replies. But the ONLY mention of your "service" is
in the tagline. Can you imagine why some of us assumed you were
spamming?


Well that is the signature I use in emails. Not something I intended as an ad.
IT seems people in this group don't like to see my sig so I'll be careful about
that!

"Bud Webster" wrote in message
...

the ONLY mention of your "service" is
in the tagline. Can you imagine why some of us assumed you were
spamming?

Try reading the FAQ mullethead. You jabber on and on about it interminably
and then when some poor ******* complies with it you berate him.

1.6 How Do I Advertise My Cool Website?
Add the information below your "signature". It is considered rude to just
blurt out an ad, but if you join in the discussions people will see the
information, and be more interested in visiting as well.

Here's guessing your next post will not be a gracious apology.

fvndvc wrote:
"Bud Webster" wrote in message
...


the ONLY mention of your "service" is
in the tagline. Can you imagine why some of us assumed you were
spamming?


Try reading the FAQ mullethead. You jabber on and on about it interminably
and then when some poor ******* complies with it you berate him.

1.6 How Do I Advertise My Cool Website?
Add the information below your "signature". It is considered rude to just
blurt out an ad, but if you join in the discussions people will see the
information, and be more interested in visiting as well.

Here's guessing your next post will not be a gracious apology.


Thanks for the defence. To the rest of you - The questions I asked were serious.
I want to know what features you lack in current software solutions to managing
your personal collection of books. I am asking so that I can develop something
to cater to you!

Some examples of problems you face could be:
- I need to keep track of different editions of books I own
- I need to search my collection by ISBN
- I need to find all the editions of a book I own
- I want to find all the books by the author of a particular book

SD

I have a problem with that and here's the problem. I already went
through this cycle with spinfree/singlefile.

http://www.spinfree.com/store/

The problem being that an ambitious indivdual such as yourself has
this starry-eyed conviction that they'll be the next ebay or yahoo or
amazon. Then it doesn't work out or they get hit by a car and then
they fold up. And then the time and effort (and money) one has put
into working with the site is out the window.

That's why I try and use software from more than a one-person shop.
Currently I use ReaderWare but I am suspicious of them as well. So I
would never put my data online and I make sure that whatever program I
use is in a known format and that it will export the data into a
comma-delimited format so I can move to the Next Big Thing (which is
unlikely to be a site featuring books and recipes) when needed.

Denton



On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:52:26 -0400, SD
wrote:

Why are you intent on screwing up my mailbox? All I want is feedback for
features I can add to my site that will be helpful to collectors. I want to have
the best website out there for book collectors. Do you have any problem with that?

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:19:26 -0400, SD
wrote:


Well that is the signature I use in emails. Not something I intended as an ad.
IT seems people in this group don't like to see my sig so I'll be careful about
that!


You don't understand. I don't care about your sig line, and it isn't
against the rules. But you didn't identify yourself in your original
post as the operator of this service, just asked how we catalogued our
collections. That, above your sig, told me - and I'm not the only one
- that you were NOT interested in our opinion, but sneakily
advertising your website. It happens all the time here, and we're
understandably wary (as well as weary) of it.

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:21:46 GMT, "fvndvc" wrote:


Here's guessing your next post will not be a gracious apology.

Certainly not to you.

I want to know what features you lack in current software solutions
to managing your personal collection of books. I am asking so that
I can develop something to cater to you!
Some examples of problems you face could be:
- I need to keep track of different editions of books I own
- I need to search my collection by ISBN
- I need to find all the editions of a book I own
- I want to find all the books by the author of a particular book

Mine:

- must be usable on a Mac, preferably both OS9 and OS X

- must be able to export records in the format used by
the National Library of Scotland's catalogue, as I expect
I'll be leaving some of my stuff to them and I'd like
to make it as easy as possible for them to deal with it.

Those are absolutely non-negotiable - if they're not there from the
start, forget it. But the four requirements you list above don't
matter to me at all.

You should support bibliographic identifiers besides ISBN - there are
lots of standard bibliographies for older books. It would help to
let users create public labels for such things - e.g. if there's a
standard bibliography for pre-Bolivar publications from Latin America,
you don't want people coming up with unrecognizably different ways of
referring to it. And remember that the same book may be indexed in
many bibliographies.

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"Bud Webster" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:21:46 GMT, "fvndvc" wrote:


Here's guessing your next post will not be a gracious apology.

Certainly not to you.

No blockhead, not to me, to the guy who you called a pimp. Remember? He
posted a reasonable question relating to book collecting which question
complied with the precious FAQ in every way which post you completely
misinterpretted in your haste to play net nanny and so you slandered him and
reported him to his ISP and did whatever the hell else you poor impotent
*******s do to make yourselves feel good about your miserable lives and your
stupid collections of scifi paperbacks and comic books and whatever the hell
else. He's the one who deserves an apology. Of course he won't get one, not
from a mutt like you.

"SD" wrote in message
...
fvndvc wrote:
"Bud Webster" wrote in message
...


the ONLY mention of your "service" is
in the tagline. Can you imagine why some of us assumed you were
spamming?


Try reading the FAQ mullethead. You jabber on and on about it
interminably and then when some poor ******* complies with it you berate
him.

1.6 How Do I Advertise My Cool Website?
Add the information below your "signature". It is considered rude to just
blurt out an ad, but if you join in the discussions people will see the
information, and be more interested in visiting as well.

Here's guessing your next post will not be a gracious apology.
Thanks for the defence.

Bad news sport: if you're reduced to relying on me to shore up your
credibility then your credibility is way far past the point of being shored
up.





To the rest of you - The questions I asked were serious.
I want to know what features you lack in current software solutions to
managing your personal collection of books. I am asking so that I can
develop something to cater to you!

Some examples of problems you face could be:
- I need to keep track of different editions of books I own
- I need to search my collection by ISBN
- I need to find all the editions of a book I own
- I want to find all the books by the author of a particular book

SD

Denton Taylor wrote:
I have a problem with that and here's the problem. I already went
through this cycle with spinfree/singlefile.

http://www.spinfree.com/store/

The problem being that an ambitious indivdual such as yourself has
this starry-eyed conviction that they'll be the next ebay or yahoo or
amazon. Then it doesn't work out or they get hit by a car and then
they fold up. And then the time and effort (and money) one has put
into working with the site is out the window.

I have no intention of being ebay or yahoo or amazon or anything big. I don't
even intend to make a living out of the site. So far it is just a hobby site. It
just about pays for its own costs and I'm happy with that. Even if it doesn't
I'll still keep running the site because I like to do it!

That's why I try and use software from more than a one-person shop.
Currently I use ReaderWare but I am suspicious of them as well. So I
would never put my data online and I make sure that whatever program I
use is in a known format and that it will export the data into a
comma-delimited format so I can move to the Next Big Thing (which is
unlikely to be a site featuring books and recipes) when needed.

Hehe, yeah sure that is something I agree with you on and acknowledge as a
problem with my site. I've got too many things going on there.

Exporting and importing from various formats seem to be very important to people
here and other places. I am working on that. Thanks!

Denton



On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:52:26 -0400, SD
wrote:


Why are you intent on screwing up my mailbox? All I want is feedback for
features I can add to my site that will be helpful to collectors. I want to have
the best website out there for book collectors. Do you have any problem with that?




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