The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48998   Message #739574
Posted By: JohnInKansas
29-Jun-02 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: Mudcat 'virtual' library proposal
Subject: RE: Mudcat 'virtual' library proposal
Well...

I have an index to my books and CDs, in a Word doc that lists Song Title, Book/CD, page number, and some minor miscellany. Unfortunately, with very few exceptions, my stuff is all "in print" and not very "special." It has already been thoroughly "mined" against the "missing tunes" lists, so I doubt that there would be much value in having it posted.

For those who might be considering indexing their own stuff, my 207 books and 221 CDs produced a 2.76MB Word document with 37,601 Song Title Entries. Set at 9 point type, it would print at 648 pages. For the detail-task-oriented, it's 1,455,701 keystrokes, spread over about 10 years that I've been adding each new book as they come in.

I wouldn't see much value in posting my index, although if I could identify a few specific books of interest I could extract indices of them. The difficulty is in identifying which ones are worth posting.

Perhaps a more achievable goal would be just an index of book titles, as a starting point to identify which ones are of interest.

A good index is a wonderful thing - but excuse me now, I have to go look for that old thread on the meaning of "anal retentive" and then I need to add my .mid, .nwc, and .pdf music files to my index.

John