[Sca-cooks] personal libraries

[Harris Mark.S-rsve60]

Johnnae commented:
>Stefan
>(Whose book cataloging is now up to 1005 volumes and doesn't know if he will ever get most of those read, and that is not even near the 10K+? that Johnnae said she had.)
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I don't spend the time cataloguing mine though.
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So, how do you ever find the one you want? Or keep from buying multiple copies of the same book? Especially with such a large library as you have?

Actually since the new cataloging program I'm using (Readerware) uses the ISBN number to look up the book info on the web it doesn't take me that long to catalog each book. And if, which is only true for some books, less that I had thought there would be, the book has a barcode, I can quickly just run the barcode reader across the barcode and not type anything. This takes only a few seconds. I spend longer writing in the book so I know it has been catalogued. I do have about ten feet of books though that don't have an ISBN or Library of Congress number and some books where the program couldn't locate their ISBN number on the web. The latter I will try again sometime and search the full set of sites rather than just the five or six I was searching. For the ones without numbers, I'm hoping that ISBN numbers have been assigned for other books since my copy was published and be able to find these with a title and author search. If not, then I will have to type in the bibliograph!
 ic info myself. I have found even more duplicate books than I thought I had. Maybe I'll post the list of duplicates on the Florilegium somewhere and sell them.

Even after I get most of them catalogued, there is still the problem of finding time to read them. That takes a lot more time. Before the Internet (and getting married) I did have a bit more time for reading... I'm still one of those folks that usually has a book with him to read in odd moments waiting in line and such.

Stefan