Re: [h-cost] Book inventory software question

2006-07-21 Thread Angharad ver' Reynulf
Lynn, I have to agree on the vote for LibraryThing.com. I'd been hearing about it from several friends and after the expensive re-purchasing of 2 research books the weekend before the H-Cost discussion, went in and took the plunge to actually do something with my books. I paid for a lifetime

Re: [h-cost] Book inventory software question

2006-07-21 Thread H_Costume
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Re: [h-cost] Book inventory software question

2006-07-21 Thread Lynn Downward
Linda, thank you for the suggestion. LibraryThing didn't show up on my google search either, although I only really checked out the first page of links. With the very short peek I took of the home page, it looks really interesting. Next week, when my daughter the computer hog is away, I hope to sp

RE: [h-cost] Book inventory software question

2006-07-20 Thread Linda Rice
Hello~! I use LibraryThing, and am quite pleased with it. So far it's been smooth and glitch-free. It's easy to enter titles, and if you have obscure ones that won't cross-reference then it's easy to manually add them. You can sort by "tags", which will help to locate by whatever subject you mi

Re: [h-cost] Book inventory software question

2006-07-20 Thread Lynn Downward
I"m sharing this information with the group in the hopes that it will interest or help someone else who is in the same point that I am - I've bought two of the same Dover books twice because I didn't remember I already had it. I'm also hoping someone has used some of the software out there and can

Re: [h-cost] Book inventory software question

2006-07-20 Thread Kimiko Small
Hi LynnD. I like Book Collector, and someday when I get close to the number of books for the paid version I will pay for it. That is getting close. And it does do Macs. This is from their web site. "This organizer software runs on Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP and Apple Mac OS X 10.3

[h-cost] Book inventory software question

2006-07-20 Thread Lynn Downward
In February there was a discussion about using software about getting information about published books into an inventory from websites. One, mentioned by Kimiko, was Book Collector, where you enter the ISBN number and the software does the research using amazon.com for example. There was another