Anyone else here bored enough to put all their books in Excel?

[GtoRA2]

I was bored this weekend, So I decided to put all my non fiction books in a spreadsheet. I did all the ones stacked on the floor and one and a half shelves and I am at 124 books

[FUNKED1]

You are a huge nerd.  I dub thee, MiniDrip Jr.

[GtoRA2]

LOL
 I still don't drive a Mini.... that something right?

[GtoRA2]

Title   Auther   Subject
Fighter Combat Tactics and Maneuvering   Robert L. Shaw   ACM and Tactics
Mig Alley Air to Air over Korea   Larry Davis   Air war Korea
Air War Over Korea   Jim Mesko   Air war Korea
Fire in the Sky   Eric Bergerud   Air War South Pacific 42-45
R-2800 Pratt & Whitneys Dependable Masterpiece   Graham White    Aircraft Engines
Allied Aircraft Piston Engines    Graham White    Aircraft Engines
Desert Boneyard, Davis Monthan A.F.B. Arizona   Philip Chinnery   Aircraft Storage
Red Ladies in Waiting Soviet Aircraft Storage   Hans-heiri Stapfer   Aircraft Storage
Shot to Hell the stories and photos of ravaged WW2 Warbirds   Cory Graff   Allied Aircraft
Solomons Campaigns 1942-1943 from guadalcanal to bougainville   William L. McGee   Amphibious operations South Pacific 42-43
Armor in Vietnam A pictorial History   Jim Mesko   Armor in Vietnam 46-78
Flying Aces Aviations Art of WW2   James H. Kitchens   Aviation Art
Golden Wings 1941-1945 USN/USMC aircraft of WW2   Jim Sullivan   Aviation USMC/USN
Axis Aircraft of World War II   David Monday   Axis planes
U.S. Battleships in Action Warships No. 3   Robert C Stern   Battleships
U.S. Battleships in Action part 2 No. 4   Robert C Stern   Battleships
About Face, the Odyssey of an American Warrior   David H. Hackworth   Bio Hackworth
Patton's Tank Drive D-Day to Victory   Michael Green   Bio Patton
Good Nazi, the life & Lies of Albert Speer   Dan Van Der Vat   Bio Speer
Nightingales Song   Robert Timberg   Bio Varius
Brown Water Black Berets Coastal and riverine Warfare in Vietnam   Thomas J Cutler   Boat Combat Vietnam
A-26 Invader in Action no. 134   Jim Mesko   Bomber A-26
Production line to Front Line 2, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress   Michael O'Leary   Bomber B-17
Pride of Seattle The story of the First 300 B-17Fs   Steve Birdsall   Bomber B-17
Production line to Front Line 4, Consolidated B-24 Liberator   Michael O'Leary   Bomber B-24
Flight Deck, US Navy Carrier Operations 1940-1945   Al Adcock   Carrier info
Strangers in a strange land Vol II    Hans-heiri Stapfer   Escapes to Switzerland
Me 109    Martin Caidin   Fighter BF 109
Messerschmitt BF 109 F, G & K  Series   Jochen Prien   Fighter BF109
Tomcat The Grumman F-14 Story   Paul T. Gillcrist   Fighter F-14
F-4 Phantom II in Action No. 65   Larry Davis   Fighter F-4 Phantom
Walk Around F4F Wildcat No. 4   Richard Dann   Fighter F4F Wildcat
Pilots Manual For F4U Corsair   N/A   Fighter F4U
Warbird History F4U Carsair   Nicholas A.Veronico   Fighter F4U
F4U Corsair in Action No. 29   Jim Sullivan   Fighter F4U
F4U Corsair in Action No. 145   Jim Sullivan   Fighter F4U
F4U Corsair Part 1 XF4u-F2G   Bert Kinzey   Fighter F4U
F4U Corsair Part 2 F4U-4 Through F4U-7   Bert Kinzey   Fighter F4U
Bent Wings, F4U Corsair Action & Accidents    Fred Blechman   Fighter F4U
Warbird Tech Vought F4U Corsair Volume 4   Barret Tillman   Fighter F4U
Warbird Tech Vought F4U Corsair Volume 4 New Ed   Barret Tillman   Fighter F4U
F7F Tigercat in Action No. 79   Don Greer   Fighter F7F
Warbird Tech North American F-86 SabreJet   Chris Hughes    Fighter F-86
Production line to Front Line 5, Focke-Wulf FW 190   Malcolm V. Lowe   Fighter FW 190
Hurricane in Action no. 72   Jerry Scutts   Fighter Hurricane
Report of Joint Fighter Conference   Francis H. Dean   Fighter info U.S.
Luftwaffe Fighter Force, The view from the cockpit   Afolf Galland   Fighter info.
Warbird History P-38 Lightning    Steve Pace   Fighter P-38
Warbird Tech Lockheed P-38 Lighting Volume 2   Frederick A. Johnsen   Fighter P-38
P-38 Lightning in Action No. 25   Gene B Stafford   Fighter P-38
P-38 Lightning in Action No. 109   Larry Davis   Fighter P-38
P-38 Lightning Part 1 XP-38 Through P-38H   Bert Kinzey   Fighter P-38
P-38 Lightning Part 2 P-38J Through P-38M   Bert Kinzey   Fighter P-38
Lockheed P-38 Lightning   Warren M Bodie   Fighter P-38
Thunderbolt And Lightning   Michael O'Leary   Fighter P-38 / P-47
P-38 Lightning, Restoring a classic warbird   Jesse Alexander   Fighter P-38 restoration
Republic's P-47 Thunderbolt   Warren M Bodie   Fighter P-47
Warbird History P-51 Mustang   Robert F. Dorr   Fighter P-51
P-51 Mustang Part 2 P-51D Through F-82H   Bert Kinzey   Fighter P-51
P-51 Mustang    Larry Davis   Fighter P-51
P-51 Mustang from RAF to the Mighty 8th   Michael O'Leary   Fighter P-51 Mustang
P-51 Mustang Restored    Paul Coggan   Fighter P-51 Restoration
Fighters of World War II Volume 1   Varius   Fighter P-51,P-47,Spitfire,Huricane, Fw 190, Bf109e
Warbird Tech Northrop P-61 Black Widow Volume 15   Warren E. Thompson   Fighter P-61
Spitfire Flying legend   John Dibbs   Fighter Spitfire
Spitfire A complete Fighting History   Alfred Price   Fighter Spitfire
Marine Fighting Squadron One-Twenty-one   Thomas Doll   Fighter Sqaudron Marine
Warbird History Zero    Robert C. Mikesh   Fighter Zero
America's Hundred-Thousand    Francis H. Dean   Fighter U.S.
Flying Cadets if World War II    Robert Maupin   Flight Training US.
Douglas A-1 SkyRaider A photo Chronicle   Frederick A. Johnsen   Ground Attack A-1
Warbird Tech Douglas A-1 Skyraider Volume 13   Kris Hughes   Ground Attack A-1
Guadalcanal 1942   Joseph N. mueller   Guadalcanal
Bloody Ridge, The battle that saved Guadalcanal   Michael S. Smith   Guadalcanal
Gunships a Pictorial History of Spooky   Larry Davis   Gunships AC-46s AC-130
Bent & Battered rotors Volume 3   Wayne mutza   Helicopter Crashes
Gunslingers in Action No 14   Lou Drendel   Helicopter Gunships/scouts
Modern Fighting Helicopters    Bill Gunston   Helicopter Info
Airmobile The Helicopter War in Vietnam   Jim Mesko   Helicopter Vietnam
U.S. Elite forces Vietnam No. 7   Leroy Thompson   Infantry Elite Vietnam
Panzergrenadiers in Action No 5   Ronald L. Redmond   Infantry German PG 40-45
Waffen SS in Action   Norman Harms   Infantry German SS  40-45
Special forces First aid and Survival Manual    Chris McNab   Infantry Spec ops info.
Infantry Combat the Rifle Platoon   John F. Antal   Infantry Tactics Modern
101st Airborne at Normandy   Mark A. Bando   Infantry U.S. Airborne
Band of brothers   Stephen E. Ambrose   Infantry U.S. Airborne
The Last Parallel A Marine's War Journal   Martin Russ   Info Korea Infantry Marine
The Jungle is neutral   E Spencer Chapman   Jungle warfare
Air War Korea 1950-1953   Robert Jackson   Korea Air war
Small Unit Leadership, a Commonsense Approach   Col. Dandridge Malone   Leadership
Luftwaffe War Diaries, German Air force in WW2   Cajus Bekker   Luftwaffe
JG 26 a photographic History of the Luftwaffes top Guns   Donald L. Caldwell   Luftwaffe JG 26
Warfighting USMC   N/A   Marine Battle tactics
Battle History of the U.S. Marine Corps a Fellowship of Valor   Col. Joseph H Alexander   Marine Corps History
Great Naval Disasters U.S. Naval Accidents    Kit Bonner   Naval Disasters
Nuremberg Infamy on Trial   Joseph E. Persico   Nuremberg Trials
Jungle Ace   John R. Bruning   P-38/Ace Gerald R Johnson
MacArthur in the Pacific   Michael Green   Pacific War 41-45
Pacific War 1941-1945   John Costello   Pacific War 41-45
Encyclopedia of Handheld Weapons   James Marchington   Small arms
Modern Combat Ammunition   Duncan Long   Small arms
SS alibi of a Nation 1922-1945   Gerald Reitlinger   SS 22-45
Armor Battles of the Waffen SS 1943-45   Will Fey   Tank Battles
M1 Abrams in Action No 26   Jim Mesko   Tank M1 Abrams
M3 Lee/Grant in Action No. 33   Jim Mesko   Tank M3 Lee/Grant
Walk Around M4 Sherman No. 1   Jim Mesko   Tank M4 Sherman
M-48 Patton in Action Armor No. 22   Don Greer   Tank M-48 Patton
PzKpfw IV in action No. 12   Bruce Culver   Tank Panzer 4
Panther in Action No. 11   Bruce Culver   Tank Pather
Sherman in Action No.16   Bruce Culver   Tank Sherman M4
Hitler's Teutonic Knights, SS Panzers in Action   Bruce Quarrie   Tank SS panzers
Armor Attacks the Tank Platoon   John F. Antal   Tank Tactics Modern
Tiger Tank   Roger Ford   Tank Tiger
Germany's Tiger Tanks, Tiger I&II Combat Tactics   Thomas L. Jentz   Tank Tiger
Tiger I On the Western Front   Jean Restayn   Tank Tiger
Germany's Tiger Tanks D.W to Tiger I   Thomas L. Jentz   Tank Tiger
Tiger in Action   Don Greer   Tank Tiger
Tigers in the Mud, the Combat Career of Otto Carius   Otto Carius   Tank Tiger Otto Carius
American Jihad The terrorist living among us   Steven Emerson   Terrorism US
Flyboys    James Bradley   U.S. Aviator info.
US Marine Corps Since 1945   Lee E. Russell   USMC info sine 1945
Soviet Military Power The Pentagon's Propaganda   Tom Gervasi   USSR equipment
How Hitler could have won the war    Bevin Alexander   War info Hitler.
How to Make War    James F. Dunnigan   War Tactics

[gofaster]

My wife did something similar with her Barbie collection (about 200 dolls) and with our rapidly-growing DVD collection because we could never remember if we had a particular movie or not.  For her dolls, she inputted the model, year, price, and store where bought (apparently that's important for collectors to know).

[FUNKED1]

Where's all the dirty magazines?

[GtoRA2]

I did title auther, catagory, region, rating, publisher and coments. I am going to add a price column later, it should be interesting to see how much I have spent over the years.


We did our DVDs.    lol 489, not including the loaned out ones. lol.

[GtoRA2]

Funked,
 My GF is anti porn.... Therefore I am antiporn...


 I had like 10 years of playboy in my closet. it all went out in the dumpster after we met. (my choice) I bet some kid had a freaking great day when I did that.




That is not even close to all of the books. I bet it will end up being 250 plus. More if I do the small paperbacks.

[gofaster]

House Collapses - Man's History Books Blamed

FREMONT - Authorities are investigating reports by residents of this California town of a house that collapsed under the weight of a man's military history book collection.

"It just a-creaked, and a-groaned, and then the whole thing just went Fwoomp!", an excited Fremont neighbor exclaimed, "we thought it was meteor coming down.  Then I looked over and saw that guy's house in shambles over there."

"It was cool.", a young boy said, "real loud, with lots of dust and stuff."

Asked to describe the victim, a neighbor stated "well, he was quiet and kept mostly to himself.  He used to have a classic GTO but he sold it awhile back and after that he sort of just retreated into his house, you know?  The only time I saw him was when he opened the door for the UPS guy so he could sign for his Amazon.com packages."

"Things haven't been this exciting around here since I found a collection of Playboy magazines in the dumpster a few years ago," a young teen was heard saying.

[GtoRA2]

Gofaster!
Awsome! lol.

Man I had most of these in storage for a long time, untell we got a bigger place where I could set up the Bookshelf.

My friends hated lugging the book boxes up the stairs. Imagine all those books in card board boxes....

With the condition of the current apartment building your story could come true at any freaking time!

[capt. apathy]

I found a simpler solution.  I took all but about 300 of my books to the goodwill last spring.

 it was one of those things where I never really think I have that many but the wife is actually boxing up some when the shelf gets crowded.

I took in about 5 boxes.  some where around 750 books.  

she sucessflully argued the point that if I didn't notice that they haven't been on the shelf for the last few years, that I wouldn't miss them.  that reminds me, I need to find that recipt for my taxes.

[gofaster]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
My friends hated lugging the book boxes up the stairs. Imagine all those books in card board boxes....  

I transferred mine to see-through plastic Steri-Tite boxes for storage in the garage.  I've got my most-referenced ones on two home-made book cases in the computer room and the rest in a dozen Steri-Tites.  I've only bought duplicates once and I gave the dupe to my best friend's dad who was a Navy pilot flying F4J Furies back in the Cold War.

[GtoRA2]

Part of the reason I am doing this is dupes. I have done it 3 or 4 times. Sometimes I dont mind.

I would love to have dupes of the some of them. Like the Warren Bodie P-38 book, mine is warn pretty badly, I would like a nice one to keep nice.


Capt A
 I do that with Paper backs, take them to half priced books etc, and some of the hardbacks and bigger softbounds that suck, but I just could not bring myself to do it with most. I would end up wanting to read one again...  Though 750.... that is alot. My dad had that many or more, we had to toss most of them, Half priced books wanted nothing to do withthem cause they smelled like smoke and death.  I kept a few, I aired them out on the patio for 6 months. You can still smell a touch of it on some though.

[Estes]

i dont mean to hijack the thread, but since this about books.

i bought robert sawyers book "calculating god" about a week ago, haven't had time to read much only about 100 some odd pages into it, but it is a really good book. science fiction book, but you SF fans should give it a read.

[FUNKED1]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
Funked,
 My GF is anti porn.... Therefore I am antiporn...  


 I had like 10 years of playboy in my closet. it all went out in the dumpster after we met. (my choice) I bet some kid had a freaking great day when I did that.

Oh man, major deal-breaker.