Solving the Home Library Problem?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 22, 2006 @04:15AM from the dewey-decimal dept.

zgrossbart asks: "My wife and I have about 3,500 books. We can't find anything. All the books are in random order. We want to find a solution for organizing our books. We have a barcode scanner, but I'm not sure the best way to use it. I want a solution that is easy to maintain going forward and makes books easy to find. I also want the data in an open format. I'm think about using MySQL right now, but I'm open to other suggestions. What software do other people use to organize their home libraries?"

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BookCrossing by Pete+(big-pete) · 2006-03-22 04:17 · Score: 5, Interesting

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That's exactly what I'm doing! by RhettR · 2006-03-22 04:25 · Score: 5, Interesting

I'm actually working on a project that EXACTLY fits your problem. Please check it out at homelibrary at sourceforge. I've only just started the project, it's not very easy to install right now, and there are a few bugs, but I started it with the exact problem in mind.