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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GtoRA2 on March 15, 2004, 12:26:57 PM
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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
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You are a huge nerd. I dub thee, MiniDrip Jr.
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LOL
I still don't drive a Mini.... that something right?
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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
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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).
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Where's all the dirty magazines?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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.
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You guys are waaaaay too into World War II
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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!
:)
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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.
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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.
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LOL Chair! Awsome!
If only I could program!
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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.
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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.
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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 :D
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Anti-porn?!?!
And she is still your girlfriend?
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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.
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Take it to the limit....
Military Technology would be section 623 in the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
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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' :rolleyes: music.
:D
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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.
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do it in PDF format.....
Adobe Reader is much better then Excel for books
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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...
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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.
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Boroda
Are all you books in Russian? Or do you get English ones as well?
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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........
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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.
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Here is a link to the file if anyone wants to have a look.
BookList (http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/314_1079981646_booklist.xls)
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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 :)
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Of all my personal stuff I value the books and guns the most. I could never part with most of them...