RE: Library Software

[Mark Harrison <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Stuart,

It's not what you want to hear, but I used Excel for my fiction library
(about 2000 books.)

My logic was that

- the data is fundamentally a single table so there wasn't particularly any
mileage to gain out of normalising the data into anything relational.

- where I've got repetitive data (like Author name) Excel does the
"copy
down" or autofill nicely

- I figured up front that I'd want to muck around with the fields. I
subsequently added stuff like "series name" and "series
number" to the
original

On the CDs, I think the same applies. I've had trouble with CDDB on
compilation CDs, where the "performer/artist" field _isn't_ at
the CD level
but the track level...

Mark

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 March 2001 10:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Library Software


Does anyone know of any software that will let me catalogue my
CD/DVD/Video/MP3/Book collection?

I had a cuecat shipped over from the states a while back, so something that
can use that would be cool as well.

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