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Your Home Library: The Complete System for Organizing, Locating,…

by Kathie Coblentz

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This is an old-fashioned (in mostly pejorative sense) book-set that looks good on first blush. It's a thin volume wisely counseling culling down to a manageable library and finger-wagging about taking good care of books. It's also horrible software for the most painstaking and unfriendly data entry possible, almost unsortable, and a binder to keep a very static list of books in.

The only real value to this book is it got me so mad that I found LibraryThing, so vastly a superior source of info and tools for cataloging a home library as to make it obsolete. ( )
3 vote kimsbooks | Aug 23, 2008 |
A slim, handy guide for turning piles of books into an attractive and useful library. Sadly, the software is outdated and useless. I’ve no idea what the fake parchment paper filled binder is for. ( )
  Harmless_Dilettante | Apr 21, 2008 |
Got it for some tips, but I think LibraryThing explains why I found this set in a discount clearance house.
  Vagabondbookman | Feb 17, 2008 |
Unless you're a data-entry maven, the software is worse than useless. Why waste hours of time entering the info for your books, when the technology exists to simply enter the ISBN and get all the relevant data? (hmmmm... Library Thing, anyone?)

The "shelf feet" info was somewhat confusing, suggestions for classifying by genre was vague, and the material could have been presented in a much more logical fashion.

Layout of the book also lacks...although non-fiction isn't necessarily as compelling as fiction, this really puts me to sleep.

There is some good information in here, but overall it is a dissappointment. I am only hoping that it doesn't take potential librarians and turn them off from the whole idea.

This book reads like a marian-the-librarian steriotype. Libraries can be vibrant, alive and FUN. This book is none of the above. ( )
1 vote maggieliz | Apr 20, 2007 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0762415568, Ring-bound)

For the general book lover, someone whose ardor for the printed word has led to stacks of yet-to-be-read volumes on floors and other surfaces, here's a great, enjoyable way to keep track of them all. This comprehensive kit draws upon the expertise of one of the world's greatest libraries, the only facility of its kind with both world-class research and circulating collections. It includes a CD containing custom software to organize and record your book collection by title, author, subject, location on your bookshelf, and numerous additional useful categories. Also included are beautiful bookplates, an instruction manual, and an instructive volume on creating and organizing home libraries, written by an experience librarian. The 96-page book celebrates the myriad of joys of being a book lover, and addresses such issues as evaluating and organizing a collection, and keeping it in place with bookends and shelves; caring for books, and the art of loaning books that are actually returned.

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