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Title: Your Home Library: The Complete System for Organizing, Locating, Referencing, and Maintaining Your Book Collection by Kathie Coblentz ISBN: 0-7624-1556-8 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 Format: Ring-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: The book is more helpful than the software
Comment: My main problem with this set is that the software, while simple and attractive to use for recording one's personal relationship with one's books (in addition to some standard cataloguing data, there are categories like how you acquired it, its physical condition, your rating of it, whether or not you've read it) and some practical details like which shelf number it's on and to whom you may have loaned it, just isn't powerful enough to solve the problem I bought it for, which is to make it possible for me to really search my collection effectively. To do this, I would like to record not only titles, but what Kathie Coblentz calls "other access points", which could be the names of authors whose essays appear in a collection, for example. It's also the case that, while you may record several authors for a book, the search function will only find an author in the position in which you entered it, (so you may have to do several separate searches to find all the books on which a particular person's name is listed as author). So this won't save me the trouble of setting up my own database, as I had rather hoped it would.
The book is more helpful, with sections on figuring out ways to group books together into categories, how much shelf space you need for each category, a system for numbering shelves so that you can use the software to know where in your collection to find them (more useful if you have the luxury of making these shelves be partially full, so that you just add books to existing space, rather than moving categories around when you add new bookshelves), preservation techniques, and tips for culling the collection.
The largest piece in the set is the ring-binder with a number of landscape-oriented brown sheets of paper, for you to print out your booklist. Again, this is probably more useful for the person who wants to lovingly look over the data about their books than for someone who is adding new books all the time and will put such a list out of date regularly.
So if you're seriously looking to bring a large set of books under searchable control and are comfortable using software, this is probably underpowered for you. But for the book-lover whose books are treasured objects (someone who collects first editions when they find the ones they want, for instance) and who is comfortable enough with a computer to enter some data and print it out in order to then be able to handle a physical list of their books, this is a nice gift set.
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Title: Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl ISBN: 1570613818 Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Pound of Paper : Confessions of a Book Addict by John Baxter ISBN: 0312317255 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 11 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: At Home with Books : How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries by ESTELLE ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES, CAROLINE SEEBOHM ISBN: 0517595001 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had by Susan Wise Bauer ISBN: 0393050947 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles ISBN: 0393020290 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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