Your New Pride and Joy!

[Garrell]

It is a great program that is very user friendly. You can make notes, pricing for bought and current, place bought from you name it, tons of info can be input to it and most have slots for it. It is worth the $15 a year to me because of the ease. You can search older books and enter most by scanning bar codes.

[Merlin1958]

It is a great program that is very user friendly. You can make notes, pricing for bought and current, place bought from you name it, tons of info can be input to it and most have slots for it. It is worth the $15 a year to me because of the ease. You can search older books and enter most by scanning bar codes.

Sounds great, thank you. One thing, I don't use a smart phone so being able to search for S/L, AE etc by the isbn no. makes a big difference. Does it do that or do I have to manually enter the book? Again, I really appreciate your insight and info.

[herbertwest]

I am ok with the fee. I do need to put it all in an Excel file at some point.

So overall you're very happy with that program, right? I'm thinking I may go for the PC version at $30 a year with the cloud back up. I just finished a large step in configuring my home library and I have to say it's coming out better than I thought it would. Still waiting for a new bookcase to arrive, a lamp, charging cable and have to procure a nice leather wingback chair and overhead lamp, but what I had has all been moved to the new larger room and configured perfectly.

Next step will be to review and update and finally catalogue on paper/program my entire collection for posterity's sake and my children. That way when I go to that library in the sky they'll be able to easily ID everything I have and then either maintain and add or sell it off. I'm really, really happy with the new digs and can't wait to get started!!! I think if you give it your blessing I'm gonna give this program a go. $30 ayear seems very reasonable (less than $3 bucks a month) and as long as they have staying power it seems like a no brainer. They provide ample room for notes to designate signatures, AE's, Remarques and special editions? Will the program find ALL ISBN's? Even limited and artist editions as well as multiple publishers so that I can viably utilize the book cover template? How is it to navigate? Simple?

I would greatly appreciate any input reccomendations you can provide, Garrell!!!! Feel free to put it in a PM so we don't bore the multitudes!!! LOL LOL

What software is it?

A few years back I looked into similar softwares, but decided to go the excel way.
For several reasons, and here is what I would recommend people to look into :
- is the software a proprietary software, or can you easily export to xls? because it is $15 today, but what if the company goes bankrupt or decides suddenly to charge 500 a year? Can you get out of it or will you have to restart from scratch?
Kind of like imageshack for those that were using it : they decided to move from free to 250 dollars a year and at first there were no real ways to retrieve the pictures, if i recall correctly? A big sort of blackmail for those that were desperate to get their files

- how easy is it to add YOUR books? ISBN is useful, but what if you got books without isbn? Like proofs? Old magazines and fanzines? what about items that are not books? : like vhs or dvd / bluray, promo items. Can you enter them as well?
do you have to add manually a lot of informations to create an entry or does it take 5 seconds?

- how customisable is it? can you add the columns and infos you need? excel can be pretty customisable. I can create a cell that counts my purchase costs, my estimate value of the collection... however it doesnt really allow covers. although I could add links to an external folder that could contain them


Excel may not be the nicest to look at, but to me it does the job. I have tabs about books/items I am looking for ; other tabs for specific parts of my collection (given I collect a few authors), and being synchronized in Dropbox, I can access it anywhere from my laptop to my phone

[amd013]

I am ok with the fee. I do need to put it all in an Excel file at some point.

So overall you're very happy with that program, right? I'm thinking I may go for the PC version at $30 a year with the cloud back up. I just finished a large step in configuring my home library and I have to say it's coming out better than I thought it would. Still waiting for a new bookcase to arrive, a lamp, charging cable and have to procure a nice leather wingback chair and overhead lamp, but what I had has all been moved to the new larger room and configured perfectly.

Next step will be to review and update and finally catalogue on paper/program my entire collection for posterity's sake and my children. That way when I go to that library in the sky they'll be able to easily ID everything I have and then either maintain and add or sell it off. I'm really, really happy with the new digs and can't wait to get started!!! I think if you give it your blessing I'm gonna give this program a go. $30 ayear seems very reasonable (less than $3 bucks a month) and as long as they have staying power it seems like a no brainer. They provide ample room for notes to designate signatures, AE's, Remarques and special editions? Will the program find ALL ISBN's? Even limited and artist editions as well as multiple publishers so that I can viably utilize the book cover template? How is it to navigate? Simple?

I would greatly appreciate any input reccomendations you can provide, Garrell!!!! Feel free to put it in a PM so we don't bore the multitudes!!! LOL LOL

What software is it?

A few years back I looked into similar softwares, but decided to go the excel way.
For several reasons, and here is what I would recommend people to look into :
- is the software a proprietary software, or can you easily export to xls? because it is $15 today, but what if the company goes bankrupt or decides suddenly to charge 500 a year? Can you get out of it or will you have to restart from scratch?
Kind of like imageshack for those that were using it : they decided to move from free to 250 dollars a year and at first there were no real ways to retrieve the pictures, if i recall correctly? A big sort of blackmail for those that were desperate to get their files

- how easy is it to add YOUR books? ISBN is useful, but what if you got books without isbn? Like proofs? Old magazines and fanzines? what about items that are not books? : like vhs or dvd / bluray, promo items. Can you enter them as well?
do you have to add manually a lot of informations to create an entry or does it take 5 seconds?

- how customisable is it? can you add the columns and infos you need? excel can be pretty customisable. I can create a cell that counts my purchase costs, my estimate value of the collection... however it doesnt really allow covers. although I could add links to an external folder that could contain them


Excel may not be the nicest to look at, but to me it does the job. I have tabs about books/items I am looking for ; other tabs for specific parts of my collection (given I collect a few authors), and being synchronized in Dropbox, I can access it anywhere from my laptop to my phone

I have been using access for the last 2 years or so. It is pretty fun, but tedious. It was originally for SK books only, so didn't even add an Author field, but now that I have several Suntup books and started to collect Joe Hill, need to decide whether to have one big database, or 1 per author. Having multiple authors would mean adding another field, and updating all my queries.

[sullichin]

I had an excel spreadsheet, and then my SSD died and I lost it. I have backup solutions too (dropbox and external HDD) but for some reason never made a copy of it. I was thinking about just moving to Google sheets so I don't do something stupid like that again.

You could potentially have excel/google sheets/whatever query an external JSON service that returns the title/whatever you want for an ISBN you type in. Here's an example from openlibrary.org:

https://openlibrary.org/isbn/0385199570.json

[Ricky]

Not many people in my "real" life get the excitement that comes with book collecting, but I know you guys do. I just happened to log into eBay today for a quick SK browse and found an almost too-good-to-be-true listing of a book I've been looking for in perfect condition for the past 15 years. I messaged the seller to confirm the condition and got this reply: "Yes, unread tight binding. It’ll be as if you time traveled back to 19_ _ and purchased the book new directly from the book store." The heavens opened up, angels sang, and it rained Hershey bars and candy canes.

Guess the title...NOW.

[Randall Flagg]

Lisey's Story

[Ricky]

How'd you know?!

[herbertwest]

Here is my first french official book, and not self-printed : it's an essay about Bernard Werber, a french author that is mostly unknown to the english-speaking readers as only his first book was released in the USA.

This is a small chapbook, but I am still pretty happy as I suggested it to the publisher after they released a similar one a few months ago about Stephen King.
And I had been working in the past about a project about Bernard Werber.

First print of 200 copies, and they are pretty cheap : 2€ for digital copies, and 5€ shipped otherwise !

[Ari_Racing]

Congrats, J!! 😊😊

[Lot guy]

Congratulations Jeremy, very cool!!!!

[Br!an]

Cool!

[zelig]

Very cool!

[webstar1000]

Nice brother. You Should be very proud!


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[Garrell]

Congrats, awesome to get published!

[George at C-Springs]

Here is my first french official book, and not self-printed : it's an essay about Bernard Werber, a french author that is mostly unknown to the english-speaking readers as only his first book was released in the USA.

This is a small chapbook, but I am still pretty happy as I suggested it to the publisher after they released a similar one a few months ago about Stephen King.
And I had been working in the past about a project about Bernard Werber.

First print of 200 copies, and they are pretty cheap : 2€ for digital copies, and 5€ shipped otherwise !

That's awesome Jeremy, congrats! So what do we need to do to get our hands on the signed/lettered editions?

[Ricky]

Not many people in my "real" life get the excitement that comes with book collecting, but I know you guys do. I just happened to log into eBay today for a quick SK browse and found an almost too-good-to-be-true listing of a book I've been looking for in perfect condition for the past 15 years. I messaged the seller to confirm the condition and got this reply: "Yes, unread tight binding. It’ll be as if you time traveled back to 19_ _ and purchased the book new directly from the book store." The heavens opened up, angels sang, and it rained Hershey bars and candy canes.

Here we go! My 15 year search for a copy I'm happy with is over. Unread and stored in a plastic tote since it was bought in 1986. Annnnd...no concave or cracked spine!

[bdwyer19]

Beautiful copy! It’s a great feeling not to have to search any longer!

[Randall Flagg]

One of the nicest I have seen. Congratulations.

[Ari_Racing]

Congrats!

[Hunchback Jack]

Congrats! That's a stunning copy.

[Ricky]

Thanks, guys! The hunt is still on for a Skeleton Crew.

[webstar1000]

Not many people in my "real" life get the excitement that comes with book collecting, but I know you guys do. I just happened to log into eBay today for a quick SK browse and found an almost too-good-to-be-true listing of a book I've been looking for in perfect condition for the past 15 years. I messaged the seller to confirm the condition and got this reply: "Yes, unread tight binding. It’ll be as if you time traveled back to 19_ _ and purchased the book new directly from the book store." The heavens opened up, angels sang, and it rained Hershey bars and candy canes.

Here we go! My 15 year search for a copy I'm happy with is over. Unread and stored in a plastic tote since it was bought in 1986. Annnnd...no concave or cracked spine!

Over the years. I looked back and had purchased 107 copies of that book. I have one just like you do... but it took me years. I think this book is near impossible to get like this. I ironically kept 26 of those... to have a copy for year year of the 27 year cycle... BUT only one is that nice. I think it’s worth FAR more than anyone wouod guess. Far more.

[webstar1000]

Here is a pic of them. Along with all my IT stuff. Lol it’s bigger now as that was 2 years ago. Do I love this book?




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[Randall Flagg]

Can't have too much sh(IT)