{"id":1223,"date":"2004-06-14T00:32:35","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T00:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/06\/14\/library_software_and_bibliographic_tools.html"},"modified":"2004-06-14T00:32:35","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T00:32:35","slug":"library_software_and_bibliographic_tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/06\/14\/library_software_and_bibliographic_tools.html","title":{"rendered":"library software and bibliographic tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the post-finals reconstruction of my life, i acquired a new bookshelf and reorganized all of my books into genre-specific clusters that make sense to me. I updated my excel spreadsheet of all books (and where they were lent). I mentioned this to a friend who suggested that i check out Library<\/a> and now i’m frustrated.<\/p>\n

There are so many things that i want a library tool to do for me, but keeping tabs on the purchase price and condition aren’t amongst them. In fact, these categories make me twitch. I’m a hoarder and my conditions are very personal and sentimental (“strawberry stains from best friend’s trip to France” are amongst them). There’s something psychologically tormenting about knowing that a tool could be made to suit my needs, but that it’s not worth the effort of converting from Excel because the actual tool for my purported use provides no advantages (and simultaneously reminds me that i don’t collect games or care about design-driven normative values about books like worth… although i did declare all of my rare books for my renter’s insurance). The secondary frustration is knowing that i could build such a tool for myself, but am too lazy and justify it by telling myself that it’s not a good use of my time or hands.<\/p>\n

So, instead i’ll whimper and note my top two feature desires in case i get around to it later or in case anyone else is planning on building such a tool or in case i’m just clueless and don’t know of something else out there.<\/p>\n

– Auto-fill from author name and\/or title, not ISBN. How many people search Amazon based on ISBN? If i had that information, i would already have done the Amazon search. Make a good guess. And make multiple suggestions. And if you’re wrong, i’m probably just learning about a book that i needed to know about anyhow.<\/p>\n

– Let me construct a bibliographic reference from it. The amount of time i spend manually creating bibliographies is horrid. And i never get them right anyhow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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