Has anyone heard of a freeware data base which is designed for
organizing a rather large personal library?

Avraham

Avraham Hanadari wrote:

> Has anyone heard of a freeware data base which is designed for
> organizing a rather large personal library?
>
> Avraham

Homebase - Freeware - ABE booksellers have access to ISBN lookup -
others do not . . . not sure what the upper limit is but I *very* much
doubt that will be a problem . . .

http://www.abebooks.com
http://www.abebooks.com/docs/homebase/main.shtml

v 2.3 8.94 MB (English, German, French)

Easy to use. IMO Homebase is your best bet - there are other options -
come back if you want info. FWIW - I catalog my books in a spreadsheet -
I like full control

Susan
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Susan Bugher wrote:

> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>
>> Has anyone heard of a freeware data base which is designed for
>> organizing a rather large personal library?
>>
>> Avraham
>
>
> Homebase - Freeware - ABE booksellers have access to ISBN lookup -
> others do not . . . not sure what the upper limit is but I *very* much
> doubt that will be a problem . . .
>
> http://www.abebooks.com
> http://www.abebooks.com/docs/homebase/main.shtml
>
> v 2.3 8.94 MB (English, German, French)
>
> Easy to use. IMO Homebase is your best bet - there are other options -
> come back if you want info. FWIW - I catalog my books in a spreadsheet -
> I like full control
>
> Susan
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm downloading Homebase right now. I have
been using a large table in Open Office. I considered the spread sheet,
but feared losing data if I made a mistake, like sorting one column and
not the rest!
Avraham

Avraham Hanadari wrote:

> Susan Bugher wrote:
>
>> Homebase - Freeware - ABE booksellers have access to ISBN lookup -
>> others do not . . . not sure what the upper limit is but I *very* much
>> doubt that will be a problem . . .
>>
>> http://www.abebooks.com
>> http://www.abebooks.com/docs/homebase/main.shtml
>>
>> v 2.3 8.94 MB (English, German, French)

> Thanks for the suggestion. I'm downloading Homebase right now. I have
> been using a large table in Open Office. I considered the spread sheet,
> but feared losing data if I made a mistake, like sorting one column and
> not the rest!


Hi Avraham,

we all *should* back-up early, back-up often. (backups are easy in HB)

If you have a lot of info in your Open Office table it may be possible
to import it into HomeBase.

I was playing around with importing not too long ago -> used a back-up
file to get new data into HB. This was in the version just before the
latest - I have the latest HB downloaded - haven't installed it yet -
seem to remember there's a better way in the latest version.

Anyway . . . if you *do* have a lot of data in your table and *don't*
see an easy way to import it - I'll be happy to help if I can.

Susan
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