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Best way to manage Mythos library?

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Oct 30, 2009, 6:05:46 PM10/30/09
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Hi all,

I've just starting collecting Myhos volumes \ anthologies and I'm looking for a good way to track my collection.

Can anyone recommend a good program for do so, taking into consideration he fact that most of the collection will be anthologies and it would be nice to track/sort the stories, not just the volumes?

Thanks,
David

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Oct 30, 2009, 6:25:22 PM10/30/09
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On Oct 30, 5:05�pm, "Reader" <e...@il.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just starting collecting Myhos volumes \ anthologies and I'm looking for a good way to track my collection.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good program for do so, taking into consideration he fact that most of the collection will be anthologies and it would be nice to track/sort the stories, not just the volumes?


What I do is pile all my books in a heap for a while. Then I scatter
them among 5 book shelves. Books I'm reading end up in any one of 3
bathrooms, or the living room or bedroom or in my car or brief case.
Random acts of house cleaning and children routinely reshuffle all
these contents. When I try to hide recent purchses from my wife they
may end up in my trunk or garage for a month or so. For some reason I
sometimes lose track of what I have or am reading; I haven't got that
part figured out yet.

Matt

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Oct 31, 2009, 4:30:07 AM10/31/09
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It would be fairly simple to write something in Access, Foxpro or
openoffice base.

I would try Sourceforge.net for free software. The problem is that
there is so much there. The search below should narrow things down for you.

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=605

I am afraid that icarpenter's system is extremely familiar to me.

james ambuehl

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Oct 31, 2009, 5:59:30 PM10/31/09
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In my own Cthulhoid Bibliographic efforts I tend to go alphabetically by
author, and chronologically (when published, not written) under each
author's group of stories. Then maybe have a separate list for Novels
and Anthologies and what was published in each Antho.

-- Jim

"When the Big Sleep ends, the Nightmares begin!" -- HARDBOILED CTHULHU:
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Avid Fan

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Nov 1, 2009, 8:08:30 PM11/1/09
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You are not serious are you????????????

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