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Thread #144423 Message #3339568
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
17-Apr-12 - 12:25 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Book Inventory Software
Subject: RE: Tech: Book Inventory Software
There is a commercial program called Endnote, used in scholarly writing that I used years ago when I was writing papers with citations. If you can show academic credentials (enrolled in a class, work at a school, etc.) you can get it for a reduced cost. It is an excellent way to index books, but that is only one part of the program and might be overkill. I think with this program that you could enter the identifying ISBN codes (if the books are recent enough to have them) and download the metadata from the Library Of Congress. Otherwise, it would still retrieve information for author and title information.
For one online there is LibraryThing that has an inexpensive commercial component - for the number of books you're talking about, it would be a reasonable purchase.
SRS