I have a library database

[johan]

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.

Comments

[darnia.livejournal.com]

Hand raised.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

It's yours. Remind me to bring it next time we'll see each other.

The rest of y'all can have a look at www.alvarfonden.org/bok/antikvariat.html (http://www.alvarfonden.org/bok/antikvariat.html) and buy something.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Oooooh! Är Fula Visboken den som har visorna i tidsordning?

Det spelar nog ingen roll egentligen, jag vill ha den ändå!

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Nix, ordningen verkar inte vara kronologisk. Kommer ni till Göteborg? Eller på Tisdag?

[thette.livejournal.com]

*suck* Vet inte. Inte på tisdag, i alla fall.

[thette.livejournal.com]

...and talking about your books, I have a bag for you from uistic. I believe we'll see each other next at her party, so I'll try to remember bringing them.