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Swoon!
I've been cataloging my books since elementary school.
Yes, I was a weird enough child to be painstakingly printing (by *hand* -- these were the Dark Ages of the early 1970's) Title, Author, and Subject 3x5 cards for my several-hundred book library.
In gradeschool.
Getting a computer gave me access to Microsoft Works and my first exposure to a database program. Oh joy! I could not cross-reference to my heart's content, update easily, delete easily. Excel later replaced Works. I would spend entire days creating a new database, classifying, sorting, re-shelving my library.
But today, my friend![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bookchick, who is a gen-u-wine library-degree-person, shared Readerware: a book cataloging program that is customizable.
And it has has sister programs for CD's and DVD's.
All of which can be downloaded to one's Palmpilot, thus eliminating the need to ever again stand in front of an intriguing book/album/movie scratching my head and wondering "Did I already buy that. . . ???"
I am in a veritable agony of expectation, waiting until my next payday. . . !!
Yes, I was a weird enough child to be painstakingly printing (by *hand* -- these were the Dark Ages of the early 1970's) Title, Author, and Subject 3x5 cards for my several-hundred book library.
In gradeschool.
Getting a computer gave me access to Microsoft Works and my first exposure to a database program. Oh joy! I could not cross-reference to my heart's content, update easily, delete easily. Excel later replaced Works. I would spend entire days creating a new database, classifying, sorting, re-shelving my library.
But today, my friend
bookchick, who is a gen-u-wine library-degree-person, shared Readerware: a book cataloging program that is customizable. And it has has sister programs for CD's and DVD's.
All of which can be downloaded to one's Palmpilot, thus eliminating the need to ever again stand in front of an intriguing book/album/movie scratching my head and wondering "Did I already buy that. . . ???"
I am in a veritable agony of expectation, waiting until my next payday. . . !!
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D. just goes along with it. So nice to have a book-geek husband.
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