I have started a long-term project of making a huge catalog/database of all the books that I have. Please note that I would NOT call myself an active reader, though. I just am not the person who reads a book after another. However, I do have a pretty large book collection, perhaps 500 books or so spread over many shelves, which I use as a reference material. However, my main problem is that I don’t even remember what books I have! Thus, I need some electronic help :)
What I need:
As fast as possible adding of new books. I can’t afford to spend 500 times a long time to put in every book that I have. (I guess there is no way to automate the process of typing in the name of each book, sigh.)
Possibility to tag/categorize books
Possibility to write notes (a summary or something like that)
Full-text search of all fields
What would be nice to have:
Possibility to export the book database into PersonalBrain.
A way to mark the location of the book, i.e. to know where in the shelves the book should be located
Possibility to browse through multi-level categories (like in a big library) in order to find related books where I didn’t even remember that I have them
Possibility to differentiate easily between books that I actually have myself and that I have recorded in my database for other reasons
Filter by language
Automatic download of book cover and other details
What I do not need is a community of book readers, reviews, forums, and whatever other bells and whistles (unless there is something useful that i didn’t think of right now)…
Hoping to get some good suggestions!
Thanks in advance,
Tilman
