Author Topic: Anyone else here bored enough to put all their books in Excel? (Read 915 times)

VAQ · « **Reply #30 on:** March 16, 2004, 06:32:25 AM »

That was one of the first things I did when I got my first computer 10 years ago. I started cataloging the books next to the bed and in the master bath. Thought I would start there and eventually get all of the books in the house done. It would be so cool to have all those books indexed-

By the time I finished with the books next to the bed and in the master bath I had 650 entries (I still have the disc). Sobering number. It occurred to me that my wife and I had created a huge potential fire hazard, so we boxed the lot up and put them in a garage sale.

We try not to let them collect like that anymore, but we are avid readers (book a night) and it just happens.

SLO · « **Reply #31 on:** March 16, 2004, 08:25:26 AM »

do it in PDF format.....

Adobe Reader is much better then Excel for books

Boroda · « **Reply #32 on:** March 16, 2004, 09:24:33 AM »

I think I'll never get bored enough to put all my books in Excell... Too much of them. Half of the flat is filled with books. There was a character in one of Soviet kid's books, Znaika (Know-it-all), he had books "on the shelfs, on the floor, on the tables, on the chairs and even on the bed" - it's a good description of my apartment. Most of them are fiction easy-reading, several hundreeds on history, some old science books from college etc. And I have a corner at work where I store about a cubic meter of classics...

My Father has even more books... And he has a collection of about 5000 records, some as old as 1910s. He has a perforated card catalogue for most of them...

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 16, 2004, 11:01:08 AM »

I added a few more last night and a price column lol. I am not even close to done and I am well past a grand.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #34 on:** March 16, 2004, 11:02:38 AM »

Boroda
Are all you books in Russian? Or do you get English ones as well?

loser · « **Reply #35 on:** March 16, 2004, 12:26:39 PM »

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Originally posted by VAQ
That was one of the first things I did when I got my first computer 10 years ago. I started cataloging the books next to the bed and in the master bath. Thought I would start there and eventually get all of the books in the house done. It would be so cool to have all those books indexed-

By the time I finished with the books next to the bed and in the master bath I had 650 entries (I still have the disc). Sobering number. It occurred to me that my wife and I had created a huge potential fire hazard, so we boxed the lot up and put them in a garage sale.

We try not to let them collect like that anymore, but we are avid readers (book a night) and it just happens.

VAQ! damn man, thought you dropped off the face of the earth! Good to see you are still around. I was worried.

Carry on thread........

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #36 on:** March 21, 2004, 06:32:27 PM »

I am 325! thats all the non standard size paperbacks. Price total 6139.96

I am fleshing out the coments section now and will do my non fiction paperbacks, next.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #37 on:** March 22, 2004, 12:59:25 PM »

Here is a link to the file if anyone wants to have a look.

BookList

fd ski · « **Reply #38 on:** March 22, 2004, 01:06:43 PM »

I'm shipping my car to europe along with most my belongings ( moving family there ).
So I had to make a list of all the stuff for customs.

Came out at about 350 books. That's without another 100 that I already send in boxes or took in lagguage

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #39 on:** March 22, 2004, 01:15:32 PM »

Of all my personal stuff I value the books and guns the most. I could never part with most of them...