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

[gofaster]

Originally posted by GtoRA2
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.

Publisher Announces Multi-Media Books
A Breakthrough in Publishing, Some Exclaim
FREMONT - A local book publisher announced today that he had successfully developed the first multi-media book.

"We focused on military history books because there is such a thriving market for them," a spokesman for the publishing company stated, "we know that, in today's market, simple words and pictures on paper aren't enough."

Today's readers, the spokesman explained, are de-sensitized to simple words and still pictures.  The modern reader is more savvy and expects sounds and rapid-fire moving images, much like a music video or computer game.  The traditional book format is non-electric and unable to transmit sounds and moving images so the publisher has taken an alternative approach.

Smells.

"Our books are designed to convey the atmosphere of a particular scene.  For example, the smell of smoke permeates the air of the mission briefing room just as it permeates the pages of the book.  In a big battle scene, with blood and gore and men dying, the smell of death is fused directly into the page the scene is written on.  We think it will be a big seller for Christmas." the spokesman proudly announced.

[GtoRA2]

Gofaster!
 LOL funny as hell again..

Still I think it would fail!:D

3 week old corpse and 4 pack a day smoke, is nasty NASTY smelling....

[capt. apathy]

ya, mine where all paperbacks.  I don't think I could part with the hardbounds.

when I was working I almost alwasy worked out of town.  spending all the off hours in the bar never really did it for me, so I end up going through 2 or 3 books a week when I'm working.  they start to pile up after 15 years of that.

[SunTracker]

You guys are waaaaay too into World War II

[GtoRA2]

LOL Apathy I can see that.


When I moved I did that with paperbacks, I found I was less and less interested in fiction, so I started to wead them out.


It is going to be interesting to do the price column, some looking on Amazon a few are rare and pricey. Its a shame in some cases cause I wouldlike to replace ones with broken backs, but they are usualy the really pricey ones!

[Chairboy]

My wife's mom had over 30,000 books.

Not a misprint, she had over 30,000 romance books.

She had boxes of books in storage, stacked to the ceiling, it was amazing.  Every couple days, she would go out and buy another romance book and read it, and this had been happening for decades.

We bought them a computer, I got a CueCat barcode scanner (and modified it to output proper barcode), then I wrote a program for her.  She would run the program, then run the barcode scanner over the barcode for the ISBN(for the books that HAD them, many were THAT old).  The program would ask Amazon if it knew the ISBN (95% of the time it did) and then the program would download the title, author, # of pages, genre, etc from Amazon and put it into an Access database.

It was a real timesaver.  Her plan was to sell them on eBay, but there's such a glut of romance novels on eBay, that it wasn't economical even with the automation doing the work.

[GtoRA2]

Sun
 The more I read about WW2, the more amazed I get. Truth is far better then fiction in so many cases.

From the Miracle of Midway and Bloodyridge to the humor of Marine F4U Pilots in the Marshalls making Icecream in the wings of their planes on the morning high alt recon flight!

It never gets old to me.

[GtoRA2]

LOL Chair! Awsome!


If only I could program!

[Lizking]

I have considered doing it, but I would have to hire someone for the data-entry for a week or 2.  There are programs out there for cataloging books, BTW.

[Chairboy]

The code I wrote wasn't anything special (I whipped it together real quick), but if anyone wants to see it and do something with it or build off it:

http://hallert.net/misc/bookcatalog.zip

...there it is.  It'll take the input from any barcode scanner that inputs via the keyboard or emulates a keyboard.

[Nilsen]

sure i can organise all my books in excel...

there, all done and i didnt even have to open a sheet!

books are for nerds, TV rules....yay

[sling322]

Anti-porn?!?!

And she is still your girlfriend?

[capt. apathy]

that's one of the things thats driving me crazy about this injury.  I can't read anymore (I can read a letter, but anything more than a page or 2 wipes me out).

I went from reading 700+ pages a week, to 1 (200pg large print) book in the last 10 months (took me 3 weeks to finish).

my brother gave me a  5 WW2 aircraft books for my birthday that I'm dying to read.

I'll be glad when my eyes stabilise so they can make me some glasses.

[Holden McGroin]

Take it to the limit....

Military Technology would be section 623 in the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

[rookie_spitfire]

When i was younger, my dad got me to "excel" all of the CDs the whole family had (this was just b4 the rage of Burnable CDs) and we had almost 500 CDs!! no counting how many original Records my parents had!
This day now i prolly have that many on my own coz of the evil internet assisting me in my need for 'stealing' music.