Re: Book manager?

de Susan Bugher 05/20/2006 09:41

fitwell wrote:

> Hi. I've just done an extensive search in the archives but nothing
> good has come up so far. A few apps listed have gone shareware, too,
> so couldn't try those.
>
> At any rate, a few years back I tried BookDB twice but found it
> unwieldly. Was able to enter data okay the first time, but
> corrections were difficult to make. Also, remember having the devil
> of a time trying to add the ISBN into the ISBN field. Wouldn't take
> most of the time. So would like to try something else this time as I
> still haven't properly catalogued my book collection and/or books I've
> read.
>
> Also, looking for proper software for this purpose and not tree
> databases or index card type programs <g>. Homebase, also, doesn't
> seem like the right thing. I agree with one of the posters in the
> archives that said it might be overkill. I agree. I'm not a
> bookstore! <g>

Hi Fitwell,

What do you want this program to store/do?

Susan
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