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Originally Posted by cozworth
Stop thinking about ebooks! You are limiting your possibilities by a lot.
Think DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT!
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Any basic database that allows you to make fundamental changes to field names (so you can name them intelligently - author, publish date, etc...) as well as link to a document will do the job better than 90% of what has been mentioned.
The database becomes your directory!
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I concur, save for one small problem: assuming you've designed a database schema that tracks what you want and the relationships between those items, how do you get the data
into the database?
The advantage to programs like the one recommended earlier is that they try to do that for you, scanning selected locations and importing files of the specified types.
And solutions like Readerware for paper volumes do things like interface to bar code scanners, so you can scan the code and have the database search various internet sites to fill in the information on titles you've scanned.
I have thousands of electronic titles in one form or another, and probably as many paper books. There is no way I will attempt to manually enter the data for each title, one at a time. Without an automated way of getting as much data into the database as possible, I'm not going to attempt a custom solution. I'd still be doing data entry a year from now.
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Dennis