I have a library database

So why don't I use it? I've spent blood, sweat and tears (figuratively, at least, I have certainly not bled all over the keyboard that I can remember. I usually manage to cut myself mostly when cooking vegetarian food, which is always a nuisance, because getting blood on it makes it slightly less veggo) entering 5,691 items into this database, which incidentally started as a way for me to keep track of which editions I have of Shakespeare's plays, and I export a version to the web, and another one to my Palm Vx.

All this because I want to avoid having to buy duplicates. I used to buy up to a dozen duplicates a year. The books I buy can be divided into several categories; books I reeaalllly want to read NOW, books I've been looking for, and then books by good authors that I really ought to own, even if I don't entertain any immediate plans of reading them. The last category is very duplicate-prone.

However, with my flashy library database on the Palm I'm carrying around, I should really be able to reduce the number to zero in the long and proud local tradition of nollvisionen. But noooo, I'm too lazy too look each and every book up before I buy them. "I know I don't have this one," I think. The last book I thought that about (yesterday) was Claes Hylinger's Kvällarna på pärlan.

Any takers? It's yours, just raise your hand. I'm sure it's a good book or I wouldn't have bought it. Twice. Aaargh.