[Sca-cooks] Way OT Book Question

[Elaine Koogler]

Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Wanda Pease/Regina Romsey asked:
>  ========
> I've fallen under the spell of LibraryThing.com and have been cheerfully
> entering my library.  Since my computer set up is in the breakfast nook
> where I also keep my cookbooks I started with them.  Then I circulated
> around the ground floor (bathroom, bedrooms, dining room, living room
> all
> have books shelved somewhere).  My problem is that a number of my
> cookbooks
> are either spiral bound like Byzantine Cuisine, or Comb bound like
> "How to
> Cook Forsoothly" and the various church books. I have had to start
> and stop
> enough times that I'm beginning to lose track of which books have
> gone in and which still need to be catalogued.
> =======
>
> I've run into this problem as well. I've tried two different general 
> purpose database programs and one specialized for books (Readerware). 
> The problem was that each time I had to start over, for various 
> reasons, I wanted to keep straight which books had been entered and 
> which hadn't. I simply started by writing on the inside cover of the 
> book "DB" and the date it was entered into the database. Since I'm now 
> on the third database, I'm now writing "DB3-" and the date. I've now 
> wised up and also started marking the books in pencil instead of pen.
>
> My biggest problem is that a lot of these spiral bound books or 
> pamphlets, which includes a lot of books published for SCA 
> consumption, do not have either ISBN or Library of Congress numbers. 
> My program automatically gets the rest of the info off of the internet 
> given those numbers, but for the ones that don't have the numbers I'm 
> going to have to enter everything by hand. Which I haven't found time 
> for.
>
> Stefan
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> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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Just out of curiousity, why are you having to re-enter things when you 
change databases?  I'm not familiar with library programs, but do know a 
little about databases (Oracle, MySQL and a very minimal bit about 
Access).  Typically, with most databases, you can import data from 
another database into the new database.  So, unless your database was 
damaged or destroyed in some manner...and you don't have a backup (BAD 
Stefan!), you shouldn't have to re-enter the information. 

Kiri