From cleaning to cataloging...
Feb. 26th, 2008 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
riariHehe, I started yesterday afternoon to clean the top of the plastic containers I have next to my desk. And when I had the top open, I had the brilliant idea of "hey, why not catalogue what's in the containers so you can find stuff later?"
I think I finished all three containers at....midnight? Something like that. Kept getting distracted by flipping through some of the books. And it takes longer to catalog Japanese books when I can't read the kanji, which requires searching the internets for the title.
I stopped last night with 126 books catalogued. I'm predicting I might end up near eight hundred books once I get all the bookshelves finished. Why that number? Well, I have four bookshelves. Granted one is small, but on the other three, most of the shelves are doubled up. So yeah, a lot of books. :>
It's interesting to see how the basic list I had started in Excel evolve to the current list I have now. My column names are currently thus: ISBN, Description, Subtitle, Imprint, Publisher, Location, Type, Genre, Subgenre, Subgenre2, Author, Artist, Language, Notes. I had just started out with the bare basics but it evolved as I typed things in and realized I needed other columns. Ahh databases. I miss working with you. :>
Currently it's going to be an Excel list, but I hope to either a) possibly learn how to make a Palm interface so I can have a handy list of my books, b) use this to help relearn SQL to build a database with this information. Either way, it's going to be handy to have my books catalogued.
(Though it was a surprise to find a stack of doujinshi in one of the containers. Don't think I've seen those since I put them in there.)
I think I finished all three containers at....midnight? Something like that. Kept getting distracted by flipping through some of the books. And it takes longer to catalog Japanese books when I can't read the kanji, which requires searching the internets for the title.
I stopped last night with 126 books catalogued. I'm predicting I might end up near eight hundred books once I get all the bookshelves finished. Why that number? Well, I have four bookshelves. Granted one is small, but on the other three, most of the shelves are doubled up. So yeah, a lot of books. :>
It's interesting to see how the basic list I had started in Excel evolve to the current list I have now. My column names are currently thus: ISBN, Description, Subtitle, Imprint, Publisher, Location, Type, Genre, Subgenre, Subgenre2, Author, Artist, Language, Notes. I had just started out with the bare basics but it evolved as I typed things in and realized I needed other columns. Ahh databases. I miss working with you. :>
Currently it's going to be an Excel list, but I hope to either a) possibly learn how to make a Palm interface so I can have a handy list of my books, b) use this to help relearn SQL to build a database with this information. Either way, it's going to be handy to have my books catalogued.
(Though it was a surprise to find a stack of doujinshi in one of the containers. Don't think I've seen those since I put them in there.)
