Text 32990, 39 rader
Skriven 2010-01-01 22:02:27 av Nancy Backus (1:18/200.0)
  Kommentar till text 32752 av Dave Drum (1:261/1381)
Ärende: Re: Liking things
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to NANCY BACKUS on 27 Dec 09  06:50:00 <=-

 DD> For instance, I have some skull-sweat sessions coming up. Decided to
 DD> catalogue all my books when I bought a second copy of a book I already
 DD> had. I remember plot/story line much better than actual titles. So, I
 DD> got out the Open Office and began to build a template ... and got
 DD> pretty darned frustrated. So, I went looking for a pre-built template
 DD> that I could use as-is or modify to my liking. And I found a complete,
 DD> working database software program that is pretty nearly just what I had
 DD> in mind. And it was free.
 DD> (http://www.spacejock.com/BookDB.html?BookDB2) The software author has
 DD> a bunch of freebies available.

Years ago, back when I had more time available, I had started
cataloguing my book and my recording collections... on 3X5 cards.  It
was also in my pre-computer days... and never did get finished, even
with the collections I then had.  The thought had been, once the
computer was a given, to use that... but somehow hasn't happened yet. :)

 DD> Anyway - while the database/librarian is straight forward I was not
 DD> looking with joy at the task of hand entering several thousand titles
 DD> ... but, wait, (as Billy Mays used to say) there's more. The darned
 DD> thing accepts bar-code scanner input. PHEW. Now I'm down to entering a
 DD> few hundred titles which predate bar codes entirely. My friend Dennis
 DD> has told me that he will give me a scanner that he got for free from
 DD> Radio Shaft several years ago. Been on the internet looking and found
 DD> several hacks that will allow the thing to be used for my purposes ...
 DD> but, the company is defunct, so I will have to be my own tech support.
 DD> FEH! 
 DD> The only good thing is going to be the warm glow of self satisfaction
 DD> when I get over on this thing.  Bv)=

Good luck on that.. :)

ttyl     neb

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