Prophecy and Change

[altariel]

The full author list for Prophecy and Change is now available: you can see it here, where you can also click on to Amazon to pre-order it (plug, plug)!

There's also a picture of the front cover.

Comments

[trixieleitz]

Perhaps I should webify my book database, just in case I can return this and many other favours.

Re:

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I couldn't even bear to think about starting a book database. I think the attempt would finish me off.

[trixieleitz]

Readerware made it relatively easy, except for those books that didn't have proper ISBNs (mostly old or book club editions, I think). For those I cheated and did a search on Amazon for similar editions, then had RW search those ISBNs, then manually added a note to each record that this wasn't the edition I owned. Didn't bother me - all I really need is a way of recording title/author.

My only complaint is that I haven't found a way (if one exists) to make it search databases not specified in the original installation. So one is stuck with UK and North America, iirc. Some of my titles were published in NZ, and weren't found in amazon.com or amazon.co.uk, but might have been on an NZ bookseller's site.

I still remember the BoT, shortly after he got his first laptop, chugging all the data into a custom-designed database. Took him ages. This was so much nicer :)

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

One of the posts that I haven't had chance to make is about such things. In case it takes me a while yet: thanks for the pointer the other week to ReaderWare. It may be an answer to a longstanding problem for me: I *really* want to catalogue my books, music and fillums, but the idea of all that data entry is almost as intimidating as the piles of unread books... I'll definitely investigate it. I looked at the CD part of a similar software suite (http://www.fnprg.com/index.html) last year. The idea was great, but its data structure wasn't well suited to opera (probably about 75% of my CDs).