I’ve spent most of today re-cataloging my random scattering of books. It was getting to the state where piles of books were everywhere, waiting to be listed (to stop me buying duplicates because I can’t remember if I borrowed it or have it). Me being me, I’ve managed to lose the file that I made last time so I started again.
I use Tellico, which lets me type in ISBN/UPC and retrieve the rest of the detail from Amazon. I’ve been using it for a couple of years now and I think it’s fantastic. I didn’t get on with Alexandria (but I can’t remember why) and I couldn’t be bothered making my own, when Tellico (previously Bookcase) does such a good job.
I’m going to have to learn XSLT it seems, as I don’t like the reports that come out the other end, and they appear to be hackable, but not by mere mortals like me. Something for another day, perhaps. In the meantime, here is the new book list.
Looking again at Alexandria, its output is more along the lines of what I was looking for, plus it’s Ruby, which wins points automatically. I shall give it another try. But not right now. After a day spent hoiking books around, I’m all graunchy around the edges, so I shall now have a bath.
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I ended up going Mac specific on this and using Delicious Library, not least because it has integration with attached cameras so things can be scanned into it by barcodes. Turns out to be a big timesaver when you’re got a lot of things to scan in.
I definitely concur with Delicious Library. It’s hard to really put one’s finger on it, but for some reason I can’t help having fun when I’m cataloging with it. Also, how can you go wrong with a program that has the word “Delicious” in the name? You just want to lick it.