I love books. I have hundreds of books. I’m looking for a way to try and keep track of all of them. I can’t remember what I’ve read and what I haven’t read. And when I’m buying books, I can’t remember what I own and what I don’t. There’s a few books that I have 2 copies of. Maybe I thought I lost it or just forgot that I had it. I don’t really know.
So I’m thinking, if I could build a database of what books I have, it’d be much easier to know what I have and I’d quit wasting money on buying books I already own. I’ve thought about building a database in access, but surely there’s something better out there. I’ve done a bit of research but still can’t find the perfect one.
I need a program that is either web-based (yet to find one of those) or can be exported to a common format such as Excel.
Collectorz.com Book Collector is the best I’ve found so far. It links up with Amazon or the Library of Congress and pulls up all of the book’s information from the ISBN #.
Koha looks to be interesting as well. It is an open source project that can be used to manage huge public libraries with multiple branches. It may be a little overkill for the personal library
As I continue to research this I’m finding that there’s literally hundreds of options.
Shareware library management tools
Another list of library management options – Look towards the bottom
Anyone have any suggestions?
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Personally I’d just use an access database. You’ll get the most flexibility and it’s free!
Yea, access is the way to go for sure unless you wanna shell out some big bucks for a custom programmed piece of software.
Jennifer and Don, thanks for you input. I may end up going from scratch and programming a database myself.