Book Collectorz

So I re-bought and updated my book Collectorz software. I've used this stuff before to try and catalog my vast collection of books, but I just couldn't get my stuff together to do all the books.

Here's why: I didn't have a scanner or for that fact a reliable laptop.

I've had my MacBook for a couple of years now and don't think I could ever live without it. I also have a big HP desktop for all my business stuff, but for personal perusal of the interwebs the Mac is the bees knees. I can write anywhere and now I can catalog anywhere.

I bought some cheap $30 scanner from Amazon. The Collectors software doesn't officially recognize he scanner, but it works perfectly. I can single scan, or batch scan, but when batch searching there will be some titles that Collectorz does not recognize and then you have to stop and figure out book has a wack barcode. It's more  tedious to single scan, but more accurate.

So far I've only done about 250 titles in my office and those are just the loose ones not on shelves in my "ToBeRead" pile. I'm anxious to get it all done, but it is a lot of work. After I've scanned them in I have to go back and catagorize the books by genre. The software will select the subjects, but you have to choose the genre. It's actually more fun that way. I can split all my books into just 3 genres or 30 and it will still keep the subject headings regardless of what genre I choose.

 It will definitley take a while to get everything just as a want it, but hopefully this will keep me from buying books multiple times. It seems whenever I'm looking for a classic book I run out and buy a copy and then find I already have 2 copies in various parts of the house. It's a summer long project and I only have a couple of more weeks to go.

I'll spend a little bit more time exploring Book Collectorz and the ins-and-outs of the software and really get a great listing of my entire library. Ohhh it just gives me goosebumps to think about it... lists and lists of perfectly catagorized books that I already own! Oh the joys of being a librarian.

Here is the link to Book Collectorz .