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posted by [personal profile] awahlbom at 02:33pm on 15/09/2008 under
So, I've joined LibraryThing and only have about two to three dozen books (depending on whether I want to count computer manuals as books) left to add manually. I'm happy I already had a database with ISBNs for all my books that have such, or it would have taken months to enter everything; now, it took just above an hour to add nearly 1,200 books.

Seriously, this is a bloody drug for an archive and documentation geek like me. I've brought a backpack of books to work today, and intend to scan the covers after today's work is done — network scanner FTW!
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posted by [identity profile] dominicflandry.livejournal.com at 01:26pm on 15/09/2008
I'm happy I already had a database with ISBNs for all my books that have such, or it would have taken months to enter everything; now, it took just above an hour to add nearly 1,200 books.

Seethes with envy

network scanner FTW!

seethes some more
Edited Date: 2008-09-15 01:27 pm (UTC)
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posted by [identity profile] lundbomikent.livejournal.com at 09:58pm on 16/09/2008
SAS is an excellent language for cataloguing. You can scan old, hand-typed lists (although it is trickier, I don't even know if it is possible, in Unix) turn them into datasets and then index, label and sort them. I understand the rest of Europe, especially in academia, mainly uses SPSS these days, though. We're a bit behind in the UK I suppose...
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